BY DAN HILDEBRAN
General manager
STARKE—The Florida Highway Patrol said a Starke man was sent to a hospital with critical injuries after a Middleburg crash.
According to an FHP report, the 57-year-old man was traveling southbound on State Road 21 Near County Road 18 when he sideswiped a sport utility vehicle while trying to change lanes. His van collided with a utility pole and then went into the retention pond, submerging his vehicle.
FHP reported that Clay deputies extracted the man from the pond after the Thursday, January 25 incident. The driver of the other vehicle, a 33-year-old woman, and an accompanying 3-year-old girl were not injured.
