A person is dead and two are in critical condition after a head-on collision in Marion County late Saturday night.
Florida Highway Patrol said this happened just after 11 p.m. on SW 49th Avenue just south of SW 117th Place.
Troopers said a 70-year-old Ocala man was driving a sedan northbound when another sedan traveling southbound crossed into the northbound lane, crashing into the front side of the sedan.
The 70-year-old driver was pronounced dead at the hospital.
A 31-year-old passenger in the northbound sedan and the 35-year-old driver of the other sedan are in critical condition.
Two other passengers in the southbound vehicle were taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
The crash remains under investigation.
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Source: wesh
