A driver was killed in an early morning crash on State Road 44 in Sumter County.
The 30-year-old Inverness man was driving a Kia Forte at 4:51 a.m. Wednesday traveling westbound on State Road 44, west of Interstate 75 in Wildwood and west of County Road 475, when he failed to negotiate a curve, according to an accident report from the Florida Highway Patrol.
His vehicle departed the roadway, and collided first with a utility pole, then a barbed wire fence…