ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A 30-year-old man was killed after running off the road and crashing his vehicle into a pole along State Road 429 on Monday afternoon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Troopers said the single-vehicle crash happened on S.R. 429 at mile marker 29 near Ocoee Apopka Road around 2:15 p.m.
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According to a crash report, a Nissan Sentra was traveling north on S.R. 429, approaching mile marker 29, when it ran off the roadway right onto the outside shoulder.
As a result, the Sentra collided with an “electric pole.”
Troopers said the driver, identified as a 30-year-old Winter Garden man, was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The incident marks the second deadly crash on S.R. 429 after a 35-year-old Orlando man was killed and his passenger was seriously injured Monday morning in a single-vehicle rollover crash, also in Orange County.
The crash remains under investigation.