OCALA, Fla. - Country music singer David Allen Coe has been hospitalized after being hit by a tractor-trailer when he ran a red light in Ocala, Florida, according to a police spokesperson.

Ocala Police Department Lt. Corey Taylor tells ABC Action News on Tuesday morning that the colorful, infamous "outlaw" country singer was traveling eastbound on State Road 40, also known as West Silver Springs Boulevard, in a 2011 Chevrolet Suburban around 1:30 a.m. when he approached the intersection of South Pine Avenue and failed to stop for a red light.

A 1996 Peterbilt tractor-trailer semi, driven by Robert Johnson, 59, of California, was traveling northbound on South Pine Avenue when he collided with the passenger side of Coe's vehicle.

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