A man was killed Saturday morning after his SUV hit a tree in Columbia County, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
The crash happened around 8:16 a.m.
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The man, a 77-year-old from Lake City, was driving a Ford Explorer east on SW Finley Little Road near SW Soltice Court, FHP said.
FHP said the Ford Explorer did not “maintain a single lane of travel and ran off the roadway” and hit a tree.
The man was taken to UF Health in Gainesvile, where he was pronounced dead.
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