OKEECHOBEE COUNTY, Fla. — A 49-year-old woman died in a single-car crash just north of the Okeechobee city limits, Florida Highway Patrol said Saturday.
At 9:20 p.m. Friday, the woman from Lorida in Highland County was driving a 2004 Red Ford Ranger alone on U.S.-98 north, Lt. Indiana Miranda wrote in a news release. While driving west, she attempted to negotiate a left-hand curve east of Northwest 176th Avenue. She traveled off the roadway to the left, overturned and collided with a fence on the shoulder.
She was pronounced dead at HCA Lawnwood Hospital at 1048 p.m.
