PORT CHARLOTTE — A man died late on New Year’s Eve in a single vehicle crash in a busy stretch of U.S. 41/Tamiami Trail.
According to a news release from Florida Highway Patrol, a 70-year-old Port Charlotte man was driving a 2015 Toyota at 11:46 p.m. Wednesday.
As he was approaching a curve near Stratford Drive, the driver lost control of the vehicle, which went off Tamiami Trail, struck an embankment and then a large waterpipe when it landed into a nearby pond. The vehicle became “halfway” submerged, it stated…