3 Trucks Crash In Manatee County: FL Highway Patrol

MANATEE COUNTY, FL — Three trucks, including a semi-tractor trailer truck, were involved in a Monday afternoon crash in Manatee County, according to a Florida Highway Patrol news release.

The semi truck was heading east on State Road 70, approaching the Betts Road intersection, around 12:45 p.m.

A pick-up truck driven by a 24-year-old Arcadia man heading west on S.R. 70 at the same intersection stopped to make a left turn onto Betts when another pick-up truck failed to stop behind it, state troopers said.

While the second pick-up truck’s driver, a 74-year-old Ohio woman, tried to avoid a crash, she rear-ended the truck in front of her.

She then rotated counterclockwise, hitting the left side of the semi truck, FHP said.

The drivers of both pick-up trucks suffered minor injuries in the crash while the semi truck’s driver, a 45-year-old Arcadia man, was uninjured.