A man has lost his driver’s license for three years after hitting a landscaper in The Villages.
Dagoberto Cendejas, 26, of Summerfield, was sentenced earlier this month in Sumter County Court after pleading no contest to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident with injury. In addition to losing his driver’s license, Cendejas has been placed on probation for two years.
He was at the wheel of a burgundy 2022 Dodge Ram pickup at about 4 p.m. June 11 when he was traveling on County Road 466 near the entrance to the Village of Bridgeport at Laurel Valley when he struck a landscaper working for Yellowstone landscaping, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.
The landscaper told an investigator that he had been working in the median when the pickup knocked him to the ground. Instead of stopping, the pickup sped up and continued to travel eastward. The landscaper, who was taken away by ambulance, suffered sore ribs and a sore upper back in addition to bruising.
In an interview two days later, Cendejas said he had been looking into his right mirror and “felt his truck hit something.” He continued driving and stopped at Lake Sumter Landing. He got out of the vehicle and “noticed damage to the driver’s side door mirror.”