The Florida Highway Patrol is looking for the driver of a truck which caused a crash Saturday morning on the Florida Turnpike in Sumter County.
The tractor-trailer truck was traveling southbound at about 6:30 a.m. in the outside lane at Mile Marker 301.
Another truck, driven by 47-year-old Debora Plumey of Miami, was traveling southbound in the inside lane. The truck was passing Plumey’s truck when the tractor-trailer entered the inside lane and sideswiped the passenger side outside mirror. Plumey’s truck left the roadway, entered the median, collided with a guardrail and overturned in the median.
Following the crash, a load of roadway striping paint spilled from Plumey’s truck along the roadway.
Plumey escaped injury. A passenger, 38-year-old Orlano Plumey-Velez, also of Miami, suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene. Both had been wearing their seatbelts.
The truck for which the FHP is looking is described only as a tractor-trailer. It continued southbound and failed to stop.
Anyone with information regarding the missing truck is asked to contact the Florida Highway Patrol by calling *FHP (*347).
