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OCALA, FL – A motorcycle and a pickup truck were involved in a fatal collision in southwest Ocala on the morning of Oct. 28, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

The Ocala News reported details of the incident, which occurred in the area of SW 60th Avenue and SW 66th Street.

State troopers said a motorcyclist was going south on SW 60th Street and was approaching the intersection at about 10 a.m.  At about the same time, the driver of the pickup truck entered the intersection and started to make a left turn.  The front of the motorcycle hit the right front passenger side of the pickup, with the truck ending up on SW 66th Street while the bike came to rest in the intersection.

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OCALA, FL – An accident in Ocala Tuesday morning sent two people to the hospital and affected traffic, police said.

According to the Ocala Police Department’s Facebook post, the crash occurred at the intersection of N. Pine Avenue and State Road 40.  The two people taken to the hospital sustained injuries that were not life-threatening.

All northbound lanes on Pine Avenue from State Road 200 to State Road 40 were blocked, and drivers were advised to seek alternate routes.  All other lanes of traffic were open.  No details were released on what led to the crash.

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OCALA, FL – Two drivers were injured, one critically, when their vehicles collided at an intersection in Ocala last week.

A report by the Ocala Star-Banner said the incident happened Monday at Northeast Osceola Avenue and Northeast 10th Street.

According to police, the driver of a Mitsubishi Eclipse was going south on Osceola Avenue and pulled out in front of a Dodge Ram 2500 pickup truck going west on Northeast 10th Street.  The pickup truck T-boned the Mitsubishi.

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OCALA, FL – Rescue crews responded to the scene of a two-vehicle collision at an intersection in southeast Ocala on Monday.

According to a Facebook post from Ocala Fire Rescue, the accident happened in the area of SE 19th Avenue and SE 31st Street at about 7 a.m.

Crew members arrived to find that an SUV and a pickup truck had collided at that location.  One person was trauma alerted and three others, including two minors, were evaluated as a precaution.  No other injuries were reported.

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OCALA, FL – Two people died and a police officer was injured following a hit-and-run incident in Ocala Saturday night, according to WESH.

Police said a driver was speeding through the intersection of South Pine Avenue and Southwest 17th Street shortly before 10:30 p.m. and struck a pedestrian and a parked patrol car.  The pedestrian, whose name was not released, was pronounced dead after being transported to an area hospital.

The driver left the scene of the crash with police officers in pursuit.  One officer was parked in a median near Maricamp Road and 30th Avenue and was preparing to place stop sticks on the ground.

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OCALA, FL – The Florida Highway Patrol said an SUV collided with a Marion County school bus on Tuesday, Ocala-News.com reports.

The vehicles were both headed west on State Road 40 when the crash happened at the intersection with SW 140th Avenue shortly before 5 p.m.

According to the FHP, the driver of the SUV stopped for traffic at the intersection but the driver of the school bus directly behind it could not stop in time and crashed into the back of the SUV.

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OCALA, FL – The Ocala Police Department was called to the scene of a fatal railroad accident on Thursday afternoon, WKMG reports.

The incident happened near the 2000 block of NE 19th Avenue in northeast Ocala, where officers arrived at the scene at about 12:30 p.m.

Police said a man was struck at the railroad crossing by an eastbound CSX train going from Lakeland to Jacksonville. The 33-year-old pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.  His name was not immediately released.

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OCALA, FL – A tractor-trailer accident in Ocala Monday night left a driver injured and caused shutdowns on U.S. 27, WKMG reported.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the 38-year-old truck driver was headed south on Interstate 75 at about 11:15 p.m. and was trying to change lanes when he hit a vehicle in the next lane that he had failed to observe.

When the truck driver swerved to his right, he struck a concrete barrier wall on the shoulder, causing the trailer to detach from the cab and roll over the wall.  The trailer spilled rock-form sulfur onto U.S. 27.

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OCALA, FL – A driver was critically injured when his car struck a pole in Marion County Monday morning, WCJB reported.

The incident shut down the southbound lane of Baseline Road and SE 24th Street as first responders and utility crews responded to the situation.

According to investigators, the driver of an SUV was traveling at a high rate of speed at about 9:15 a.m. when he collided with a concrete pole, causing the pole to fall onto the car.

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OCALA, FL – First responders were called to the scene of a multi-vehicle accident in Ocala on Wednesday afternoon.

According to a Facebook post by Ocala Fire Rescue, units were dispatched to SW 60th Avenue and SW 38th Street at about 3:50 p.m. after a report of a collision.

A sedan and a pickup truck were found upright with moderate front-end damage while a third vehicle, another pickup truck, was on its side with the driver trapped inside.

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