A woman with a history of texting while driving was arrested after fleeing a rear-end collision in The Villages.
The collision occurred at about noon Friday at the intersection of County Road 466 and County Road 101. A man and woman were in a car that pulled out of a parking lot and was struck in the rear by a vehicle driven by 36-year-old Leah Katherine Richter of Weirsdale.
The man and woman in the other vehicle were transported by ambulance to The Villages Regional Hospital.
Richter fled the scene but was later arrested by Sumter County sheriff’s deputies. She is facing charges of leaving the scene of an accident and driving while license suspended. She has been classified as a habitual offender.
She was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center on $15,000 bond.
Richter had been arrested in March after a deputy spotted her texting while driving at the same intersection where Friday’s crash occurred.
She previously had been convicted of driving while license suspended in 2001, 2004, 2009 and 2012.