2023-12-09 19:38:32
OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — A man has died after a crash on Florida’s Turnpike in Kissimmee Saturday morning.
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The crash happened just after 11 a.m. in the southbound lanes at mile marker 247, just to the north of Fortune Rd.
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According to FHP, the crash involved a 2022 Lexus RX SUV.
Troopers say the driver was in the outside southbound lane when he ran off the roadway to the right and onto the right shoulder, eventually colliding with the tree line.
The driver, identified only as a 48-year-old man from Orlando, was taken to the emergency room at AdventHealth Partin Settlement Health Park and pronounced dead there.
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FHP’s investigation into the sequence of events leading up to the crash is ongoing.
They’re still trying to determine exactly what caused the driver to initially leave the roadway.
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