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A golf cart driver is dead after the Polk County Sheriff’s Office says he drove across US-92 at the Schalamar Creek Drive intersection in Lakeland before he was struck by a Buick sedan on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The crash sent the black Club Car electric golf cart about 50 feet across the road, and the victim, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected into the westbound lane of US-92.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 people were inside the Buick and deputies say the passenger was hospitalized with minor injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the crash, investigators found several alcoholic beverage containers inside the victim’s golf cart. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deputies say that they don’t believe the driver of the Buick was impaired or speeding at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Polk County Traffic Homicide Unit is investigating the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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