A Sumter County Sheriff’s deputy and a Belleview woman were hospitalized following a three-vehicle crash near the Spanish Plaines shopping center in The Villages.
The collision occurred at 6:10 p.m. on Sunday, according to an accident report from the Florida Highway Patrol.
A 22-year-old male deputy was driving a sheriff’s office Ford Explorer eastbound on Buenos Aires Boulevard with his emergency equipment activated. As the patrol vehicle entered the intersection at U.S. Hwy. 27 under a red traffic signal, it collided with a Chevy Equinox driven by a 65-year-old Belleview woman, who had entered the intersection northbound under a green light…