A teenage driver has been ticketed in the wake of a post-Hermine pileup last week on County Road 466A.
A work crew had been clearing debris from CR 466A near Sumter Grand Assisted Living at about 11:30 a.m. Sept. 2 when the accident occurred, according to an accident report released by the Florida Highway Patrol.
Carson Scott Sellars, 17, of Leesburg, had been at the wheel of a GMC Sierra that was eastbound on CR466A. His vehicle struck the rear of an unoccupied ValleyCrest landscaping truck, the FHP report indicated. Sellars’ vehicle continued on and hit a 2013 Hyundai Sonata driven by Charles Keith Howlett, 69, of The Villages. Meanwhile, Virginia Dell Patrick-Downs, 60, of Wildwood, in a 2015 Toyota Corolla, had tried to change lanes to avoid the crash but wound up hitting the rear-end of Howlett’s vehicle.
The crew had put out orange cones on the road, the report indicated.
Sellars and a passenger, 16-year-old Coby Allen McClellan of Wildwood, were both transported by ambulance to The Villages Regional Hospital. Howlett was transported to Leesburg Regional Medical Center.
Sellars was ticketed on a charge of careless driving.
