NEW PORT RICHEY — A 19-year-old driver died in a three-car crash on Moon Lake Road on Saturday afternoon, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.
Jillian Faith Hitt, 19 and of New Port Richey, was driving north on the road in a 2008 Hyundai Accent, wearing her seatbelt.
At the same time, a GMC Sierra pickup truck was stopped in the southbound lane at the intersection of Oconee Boulevard.
Kerissa Ramson, 25, was in the truck with a one-year-old girl, Madilyn Smith. Ramson was waiting for Hitt to pass through the intersection before she turned left.
A third vehicle, a Ford F-150 driven by Raven Brooklyn Jolliff, 23, was also headed southbound on the road.
Jolliff didn't see that Ramson's truck was stopped on the road, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
As she got closer, Jolliff noticed the truck and tried to swerve to the left, troopers reported. Her F-150 struck the rear left of Ramson's truck and then crossed into the path of Hitt's car, according to the report.
The vehicles collided head-on. Hitt died from her injuries at Bayonet Point Hospital. Jolliff and her passenger, 4-year-old Anthoney Lippi, suffered minor injuries, as did Smith, the baby in Ramson's truck. The three were all treated at Bayonet Point.
Charges are pending, according to the FHP.
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