Polk County Sheriff’s Traffic deputies are investigating a two-vehicle crash that occurred in Lake Wales Sunday morning, which resulted in one fatality. According to reports, around 11:15 a.m. on Sunday, March 17, 2013, a red 2012 Chevrolet Impala traveling southbound on Mammoth Grove Road, crossed over the westbound lanes of SR 60 in an attempt to enter the median break and then turn left onto eastbound SR 60.

According to PCSO reports, the name of the deceased driver in the crash is 64-year-old Nicholas John Martell, Jr. of Miami. His passenger, who is stable at Lakeland Regional Medical Center, is 65-year-old Lawrence Stuart Forman, also of Miami.