SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — One teenager is useless, three extra are injured, and one is going through felony prices after a fiery crash in Sumter County, the Florida Freeway Patrol mentioned.
On Monday afternoon, a Dodge Charger was touring south on I-75 “recklessly and at a excessive price of pace.” The driving force was a 17-year-old boy from Inverness, and there have been 4 boys within the automobile with him, ages 13, 15, 16 and 17.
FHP mentioned the motive force was making an attempt to overhaul slower site visitors, swerved to keep away from a collision, and went off the street.
The Dodge struck a tree on the aspect of the freeway and erupted in flames, after which the motive force obtained out of the automobile, eliminated the license plate, and fled on foot.
Troopers and Sumter County Sheriff’s deputies tracked him to a hen coop on a close-by property and took him into custody.
All 4 passengers and the motive force suffered accidents within the crash and have been taken to native hospitals, the place one, a 16-year-old, later died. The driving force and two different passengers suffered minor accidents, and the fifth passenger suffered severe accidents, FHP mentioned.
The teenager driver has been charged with a number of felonies, together with vehicular murder and leaving the scene of a crash involving dying.
