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A Bell man was injured when his dump truck wrecked in southwestern Columbia County after a tire blew out.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol the 1995 Ford dump truck was traveling south near the Columbia and Suwannee county line on State Road 247 at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday when the front left tire blew out.
When the tire blew out, the FHP release states the dump truck drove off the road and onto the east shoulder where it ran headfirst into a tree near SW Allison Terrace just north of County Road 240.
The driver of the truck, a 61-year-old Bell man, was transported to UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville with serious injuries, according to FHP.