Ocala crash kills Gainesville woman, 33, troopers say

A single-vehicle crash killed a woman Friday morning in southeast Ocala.

The victim had to be extricated from her sport utility vehicle by Marion County Fire Rescue officials, who used the jaws of life.

Fire rescue officials said they received the call at 9:44 a.m. and were dispatched at 9:46 a.m. They arrived at the scene at 9:49 a.m. The driver was pronounced deceased at 9:52 a.m.

The deceased was removed from the vehicle, a Chevy, within 20 minutes, fire officials said.

An official from the Medical Examiner’s Office was on scene to take pictures of the crash, the victim and anything pertaining to the crash.

The Florida Highway Patrol, which is investigating the crash, said only that the driver was a 33-year-old Gainesville woman.

Troopers said the vehicle was southbound on Southeast 44th Avenue Road, a two-lane roadway, approaching a right curve at Southeast 46th Street.

The driver, for an unknown reason, drove straight instead of turning and the SUV struck a wire fence and then a tree. Upon impact, the vehicle caught fire.

Fire officials said when they arrived, the front of the vehicle was fully engulfed. They said bystanders and a sheriff’s deputy tried rescuing the woman, but were overcome by the fire’s heat. 

Source https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2021/10/22/fhp-investigating-crash-killed-gainesville-woman-se-ocala/6136096001/