Car injures responders as it plows into police cruiser
By Alice Wallace
Gainesville Sun
ALACHUA, Fla. — A deadly crash occurred in the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 Monday afternoon, sending 12 people to the hospital and fatally injuring a well-known outdoors writer from Cross Creek, according to officials.
Timothy Ray Tucker, 50, of Cross Creek, a syndicated outdoors columnist who wrote for The Gainesville Sun, was killed in the wreck, according to FHP.
The accident occurred around 2:20 p.m. about a mile south of the Newberry Road exit on I-75, said Sgt. Dan Miller with the FHP.
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