A driver who was fleeing from a Marion County sheriff’s deputy was critically injured Wednesday afternoon after running a red light and causing a three-vehicle crash.
The sheriff’s deputy was pursuing a pickup truck driven by a 29-year-old Ocala man shortly before 3:30 p.m. The truck ran through the red light and slammed into the front section of another pickup that was turning left from State Road 40 onto S.W. 80th Avenue on a green light. A third pickup was stopped at the red light at the intersection of SR 40 and was struck by debris from the crash, a Florida Highway Patrol report states.
The driver who was fleeing from the sheriff’s deputy suffered critical injuries and was transported to Ocala Regional Medical Center. The driver and two passengers in the second truck were transported to UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville with non-incapacitating injuries. And the driver of the third pickup truck wasn’t injured, the report says, adding that the crash remains under investigation.