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The Florida Highway Patrol says two motorcyclists died when their sport bikes left the road, went through a fence and ran into trees.
The crash happened late Saturday in Dunnellon but wasn't discovered until Sunday morning when Rainbow River State Park employees showed up for work.
The Ocala Star-Banner reported the impact scattered pieces of the motorcycles over several hundred yards.
Troopers say 22-year-old Justin Richard and 27-year-old Douglas Scott Keller were traveling at a "high rate of speed."
A Belleview man, who was walking on railroad tracks as a train barreled toward him, was killed Monday morning, Marion County deputies say.
The deadly crash happened about 11 a.m. as 37-year-old James Bare III was walking south in the middle of the track as a train was moving northbound.
The train conductor told deputies he saw Bare walking on the tracks and sounded the horn several times to try to get the man's attention and warn him to get off the tracks.
A 13-year-old boy was critically injured Tuesday when he crashed a motorcycle into a fence in Marion County, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
FHP officials say Samuel Brinson was not wearing a helmet when he veered off the road at SE 121st Place and SE 82nd Terrace around 10 p.m.
According to the FHP, an witness said Brinson was driving above the speed limit when the crash happened.
Brinson was airlifted to Shands Hospital at the University of Florida.
Two people were killed Sunday night when their small plane crashed as they filmed a zombie movie in Central Florida, officials said.
Dennis Monroe, 65, and passenger Joseph Sardinas, 70, died in the crash, which occurred around 7:30 p.m. at Monroe Airpark at Southeast 140th Street in Summerfield.
Officials said the plane was a small, two-seat, single-engine aircraft that was being used in a low-budget zombie movie that was filming in the area.
Witnesses said after a banking turn over the film site, the engine stalled and the plane went down nose-first.