DADE CITY, Fla. — A 32-year-old man is dead after a car he was driving ran off the road early Wednesday morning in Pasco County, according to Florida High Patrol (FHP).
Officials the accident happened just before 6 a.m. in the 40000 block of River Road in Dade City, when a Lexus sedan was headed northbound. The driver then judge the curve in the roadway correcting, as the sedan left the roadway, hitting two trees, as well as a fence.
FHP said the driver died at the scene of the crash.
A 22-year-old Dade City man was a passenger. He suffered minor injuries and was not transported, FHP said.
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