SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — A 36-year-old Fort Pierce construction worker was seriously injured Monday morning after being struck by a pickup truck on an Interstate 4 entrance ramp in Seminole County, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
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Troopers said they were called shortly after 8 a.m. to the westbound lanes of I-4 at mile marker 101 after the worker was struck while on the shoulder of the State Road 46A entrance ramp.
They said a 60-year-old DeBary man was driving a 2019 Ford F-150 when he hit the worker and a parked construction vehicle. He is believed to have suffered a medical episode at the time of the crash.
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The worker was taken to HCA Florida Lake Monroe Hospital in Sanford with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
The driver was uninjured but was also taken to the hospital to be evaluated.
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