Three teen girls injured in single vehicle Inverness, Nov. 25 crash
Inverness, Florida - Three teenage girls received incapacitating injuries as the result of a single vehicle traffic crash that occurred at 12:30 am, Nov. 25, in Inverness. The driver and one passenger are 17, and the other passenger is 15.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) crash report, the vehicle, a 2004 Ford Explorer utility vehicle, was traveling east on U.S. Hwy. 41, in Inverness, approaching the intersection with Courthouse Square. While negotiating a left curve in the roadway, the driver, for unknown reasons, lost control of the vehicle, which traveled into the westbound traffic lanes and began to overturn. While overturning, the vehicle collided with a cross walk signal on the northwest corner of U.S. Hwy. 41 and Courthouse Square, then continued to overturn until it came to final rest in the northbound lane of Courthouse Square, north of U.S. Hwy. 41, overturned onto its roof, facing north.
As a result of the vehile overturning, all three girls were ejected onto the roadway, but had been moved from the roadway prior to the FHP trooper's arrival on scene. All three girls were transported by Citrus Countty EMS to Ocala Regional Medical Center (ORMC) in Ocala, Florida.
The investigaing trooper, Trooper J.J. Davenport, reported that he checked with medical personnel at ORMC and was informed that all three girls were unconscious and had been intubated (a tube had been inserted into their tracheas to mantain an open airway and potentially be used to administer drugs).