A 43-year-old Ocala Police officer and seven others escaped injury late Sunday morning when a passenger van collided with an unmarked patrol vehicle in Marion County.
The passenger van was traveling east on County Road 316 shortly after 11 a.m. behind an Ocala Police Department SUV that slowed to make a left turn onto a driveway. As the police vehicle started to turn, the passenger van traveled into the westbound lane of CR 316 in an attempt to pass the SUV in a no-passing zone, a Florida Highway Patrol report states.
The front right of the passenger van then collided with the front left of the SUV. Both vehicles came to rest in the westbound lane of CR 316 facing in an easterly direction, the FHP report says.
Everyone involved in the crash – the male police officer, the 41-year-old female driver of the van and her six passengers – escaped injury and were wearing seatbelts. Everyone in the van was from DeFuniak Springs and the passengers were listed as a 14-year-old boy, a four-year-old boy, a four-year-old girl, a seven-year-old girl, an infant and a 24-year-old woman, according to the FHP report.
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