Three-vehicle Inverness crash due to driver failing to yield right of way while making left turn

Inverness, Florida - A 20 year-old Crystal River man failing to yield right to way to another vehicle was the cause of a three-vehicle traffic crash that occurred on Monday afternoon, May 18, in Inverness, according to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP). The crash was reported at 4:07 pm.

A crash report by the FHP stated that the Crystal River man was driving a 2008 Nissan Pathfinder sports utility vehicle (SUV), traveling south on Croft Ave. The driver told a FHP trooper that he was making a left turn from Croft Ave. onto E. Dawson Dr. and failed to observe a vehicle in the roadway, a 2008 Hyundai Accent sedan driven by a 16 year-old Lecanto man that was traveling north on Croft Ave., stopped, facing westerly toward Dawson Dr. The back right of the Nissan SUV collided with the front of the Hyundai sedan. The Nissan SUV rotated in a counterclockwise direction, and its back left collided with the front of a third vehicle that was traveling west on Dawson Dr. a 2004 Toyota Scion compact car driven by a 35 year-old Inverness, FL man.

The driver of the Nissan Pathfinder SUV carried two male passengers, ages 5 and 8, both from Inverness, whom, the driver told the investigating FHP trooper, he would drive to Citrus Memorial Hospital in Inverness.

The driver of the Hyundai Accent carried no passengers, and the driver of the Toyota Scion carried one passenger, a 39 year-old man from Hernando, Florida. No other injuries were mentioned in the crash report.

The driver of the Nissan Pathfinder was issued a citation for failure to yield right of way while making a left turn, and the driver of the Toyota Scion was issued a citation for unknowingly operating a vehicle while his driver's license was suspended or cancelled