HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. — One person is dead, and another is injured after a stolen SUV collided with a tractor-trailer in Hernando County Tuesday night.
The Florida Highway Patrol said around 8:30 p.m., troopers responded to a crash on State Road 50 at Kettering Road after a 29-year-old driver lost control of his GMC Sierra and crashed into a traffic median barrier. A passerby, 35, stopped to help the driver when a second man, 29, stole her Chevy HHR.
The Chevy HHR was then traveling west on State Road 50 when the suspect began to lose control for unknown reasons near Hartness Drive. It then crossed the median and entered the eastbound lanes before colliding head-on with the tractor-trailer.
The suspect passed away at the scene. FHP said he was not wearing a seatbelt.
The tractor-trailer's driver, a 45-year-old Plant City man, suffered minor injuries.
