A 77-year-old Lake City man died Saturday morning after colliding with a tree off a roadway in Columbia County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

U.S. auto safety regulators have ended an investigation into Ford engine failures after the company replaced engines or extended the warranty on some vehicles.

The U.S. government has closed a yearslong investigation into exhaust odors in Ford Explorer passenger cabins, determining that the SUVs don’t have high levels of carbon monoxide and don’t need to be recalled.

The Florida Highway Patrol says two young children and three adults were killed in a crash along a highway in Plant City.

At least one person was killed in the crash near County Road 108.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A young man was critically injured in a crash Thursday night in the University Park area of Arlington, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The crash was reported around 9 p.m. on University Boulevard at Primrose Lane. JSO said the young man appeared to be in his 20s. A witness told police that the SUV was traveling at a high rate of speed southbound on University Boulevard North when the driver lost control and crashed head-on into the tree on the opposite side of the road. No one else was in the SUV, and no other vehicles were involved in the crash.

CNN(CNN) - A 12-year-old girl hit a man and his dog with an SUV in Houston, killing them instantly, police said. Tomas Mejia Tol's daughter was driving the Ford Explorer around an apartment complex Thursday evening, police said in a statement. "The child (driver) began to pull forward from a parking space as a man was walking with his dogs through the parking lot," police said. The man and one dog were pronounced dead at the scene and the girl's father was detained. Prosecutors said he told investigators he was the one driving, but they later found out it was the girl.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - One man died early Saturday morning in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 295 near UNF Drive, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said 30-year-old Marcel Mendez was driving a 2004 Ford Explorer that left the southbound lanes of I-295 just before 2 a.m., struck a pole and rolled over. The report also said Mendez, of Jacksonville, was not wearing a seatbelt and was thrown from the vehicle during the crash. He died at the scene. Copyright 2019 by WJXT News4Jax - All rights reserved.