Troopers: Head-on crash involving semitruck causes engine to fall out of car, strike SUV

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A head-on crash on State Road 429 caused the engine to fall out of a car and strike an SUV, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

The crash happened near mile marker 19 around 12:20 p.m.

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Troopers said a sedan headed north on State Road 429 lost control and traveled through the grass median before hitting a semitruck traveling south head on.

Following the crash, troopers said the engine fell out of the sedan and hit an SUV headed north.

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Troopers said the semitruck hit the guardrail, damaging it, but that the truck driver and SUV driver were not injured.

Investigators said the driver of the sedan was taken to a local hospital with critical injuries.

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