POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A driver is dead, and a 2-year-old boy and his mother are in the hospital following a single-car crash east of Lake Wales Friday, officials said.
The crash happened just before 1 p.m. on State Road 60 near Tiger Lake Road, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
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Deputies said Connor Houston Strickland, 21, of Fort Pierce, and his family were traveling westbound in a Toyota Camry.
For reasons not yet known, Strickland lost control of the vehicle and it rolled into a ditch on the south side of State Road 60, according to authorities.
Officials said Strickland and his girlfriend, Alexandria Janae McConnell, 26, of Auburndale, were not wearing seatbelts and were thrown from the car…