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SPRING HILL, FL – A suspected drunk driver has been arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash in Hernando County.

According to Pasco News Online, the suspect was identified as 38-year-old Reinier Casola Rodriguez of Tampa.  The Florida Highway Patrol said he was driving a Ford F-150 northbound on Mariner Boulevard at a high rate of speed on Oct. 18 at about 7 p.m.   When he failed to negotiate a curve near Quality Drive and entered the center median, a man riding in the front seat who was not wearing a seat belt fell out of the pickup truck.

The truck continued traveling to the west shoulder before hitting a utility box.  The passenger, a 34-year-old man from West Palm Beach, was pronounced dead after being taken to an area hospital.  Two other men riding in the pickup, ages 47 and 29, suffered minor injuries.

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SPRING HILL, FL – Three people were injured in a crash involving an alleged drunk driver in Hernando County on Monday, reports the Suncoast News. 

The Florida Highway Patrol released information on the accident that happened at the intersection of U.S. 19 and Breakwater Boulevard in Spring Hill.

According to the FHP, 72-year-old James Victor Cocchi of Spring Hill was driving a pickup truck north on U.S. 19 at 5:21 p.m. when he made a left turn at a traffic signal that was red.  The vehicle crashed into the left side of a marked Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission pickup truck headed south on U.S. 19.  Both vehicles came to rest in the intersection.

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SPRING HILL, FL –  The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a collision that killed a teenage motorcyclist in Spring Hill on Sunday night.

WFLA reports details of the incident that occurred in the vicinity of Devlin Street and Cortez Boulevard.

According to the FHP’s investigation, a 57-year-old woman was driving an SUV shortly after 10 p.m. when she drove through a stop sign without yielding and struck the 18-year-old motorcycle rider.  He was ejected from the motorcycle and collided with a pickup truck that was parked outside a bar on Cortez Boulevard.

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SPRING HILL, FL – Authorities said a driver was killed when his car crashed during storm conditions of Hurricane Idalia on Wednesday morning.

According to WTVT, the accident happened on Saint Joe Road near Interstate 75.  The Florida Highway Patrol said a man was driving a Ford Ranger eastbound at about 6:15 a.m. when his vehicle veered off the road and crashed into a tree.

The driver, a 40-year-old Spring Hill man, was pronounced dead at the scene.

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HERNANDO CO., FL – A single-vehicle crash in the Spring Hill area on Sunday night claimed the life of a Hudson woman.

According to a report by the Tampa Free Press, the unidentified woman was heading west on Spring Hill Dive when she lost control of her vehicle near Newhope Road around 7 p.m. The vehicle served off the roadway and slammed into a tree.

The driver was taken to a nearby hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries later on.

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HERNANDO COUNTY, FL – The Florida Highway Patrol said two vehicles were involved in a fatal crash on State Road 50 in Hernando County early Monday morning.

According to The Free Press, the incident happened east of Mckinney Sink Road at about 2:19 a.m.  Investigators believe that a 63-year-old Spring Hill man was driving a van westbound on SR-50 when he entered the eastbound lane for an unknown reason.

The van crashed nearly head-on into a car driven eastbound by a 22-year-old woman from Spring Hill, causing both vehicles to rotate to a stop.

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SPRING HILL, FL – Authorities said a motorcyclist was killed and his passenger injured in a collision with a pickup truck in Spring Hill early Monday morning.

According to WTSP, the 50-year-old motorcyclist was going west on County Line Road shortly after midnight at the same time the pickup was headed east on County Line Road in the left turn lane.

The Florida Highway Patrol said the driver of the pickup turned left into the path of the motorcycle at the intersection with Waterfall Drive, causing a collision.  The motorcycle rider was pronounced dead of his injuries at an area hospital.  A 50-year-old woman who was his passenger was hospitalized in critical condition.  Both are Spring Hill residents.

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PASCO CO., FL – A man from Spring Hill as killed in a rollover collision on Bellamy Brothers Boulevard on Wednesday evening.

According to the Tampa Free Press, the 40-year-old man lost control of his pickup truck when approaching Johnston Road at about 6:09 p.m. The truck veered across the northbound lanes, rolled an unknown number of times, and struck a tree.

The unidentified driver was pronounced dead at the scene. No additional injuries were reported as a result of the incident.

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HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL – A man is facing DUI and manslaughter charges in connection a crash that claimed the life of a Zephyrhills woman on Tuesday night.

According to a report by the Tampa Free Press, the crash happened at about 10 p.m. in the northbound lanes of I-75 near milepost 268.

Troopers believe the driver of a Honda Accord, 31-year-old Michael Troy Jones, struck a Chevrolet Cruz driven by a 25-year-old man from Zephyrhills. The Chevrolet then struck the median before colliding with a tree.

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SPRING HILL, FL – A motorcyclist was killed in a two-vehicle collision east of Spring Hill on Friday morning, the Tampa Free Press reports.

Troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol say the motorcyclist was heading south on Anderson Snow Road when he turned left at Corporate Boulevard and crashed into a northbound Jeep Wrangler.

The motorcyclist, an unidentified Spring Hill man, was taken to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries a short time later.

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