LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – A 24-year-old Clermont man was killed Sunday night in a fiery head-on crash with a tractor-trailer on State Road 50 in Lake County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

The crash happened around 10:20 p.m. near Sloans Ridge Road.

According to a crash report, the Clermont man was traveling east on SR-50 when he failed to negotiate a curve and went into the westbound lane and collided with the front of a tractor-trailer.

The impact caused the man’s vehicle to become partially engulfed in flames. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The tractor-trailer driver, a 69-year-old Tampa man, was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

An investigation is ongoing.

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