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MICANOPY, FL – A collision in Alachua County Wednesday morning left two people injured and disrupted traffic along Interstate 75, according to the Main Street Daily News.

The crash happened on southbound I-75 near the mile marker 374 exit ramp near Micanopy.  The Florida Highway Patrol  said a U.S. Postal Service tractor-trailer crashed into a Ford pickup truck.

The pickup was parked with no lights activated and was partially blocking the outside lane when the driver of the southbound tractor-trailer swerved to avoid it, but collided with the stopped vehicle.  The tractor-trailer overturned as a result of the impact.

ALACHUA COUNTY, FL – A collision in Alachua County early Monday left one of the drivers dead and the other injured, the Gainesville Sun reported.

A sedan and a tractor-trailer were involved in the wreck at an intersection in Hawthorne at about 5 a.m.  The Florida Highway Patrol’s investigation found the driver of a sedan was going south on County Road 1469 and approached a stop sign at County Road 219A.

The driver of the sedan proceeded from the stop sign and then collided with a northbound semi tractor-trailer that was also approaching the intersection and could not stop in time.  The sedan driver, a 33-year-old man from Earleton, died at the scene.

ALACHUA, FL – A tractor-trailer and a pickup truck were involved in a fatal collision in Alachua on Wednesday morning, reports the Gainesville Sun.

The vehicles crashed at about 5:55 a.m. on County Road 235A near County Road 2o54.   The Florida Highway Patrol’s investigation found that the driver of the tractor-trailer was leaving the Dollar General Distribution Center and turning left onto County Road 235A.

The truck was then struck on its side by a pickup truck going south on CR 235A.   The pickup truck driver, a 55-year-old man from Alachua, died at the scene.  The tractor-trailer driver, a 34-year-old Ocala man, was not injured in the wreck.