FHP seeks clues in two fatalities
The agency is seeking information about hit and run crashes on Friday and Sunday in Ocala/Marion County.
Marion County has recorded two hit and run fatalities less than 48 hours apart.
The Florida Highway Patrol reported a pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle described only as a “sport utility vehicle” Sunday around 8:30 a.m. on County Road 25A, also known as Gainesville Road, just north of Northwest 100th Place and about two miles north of State Road 326.
The SUV was traveling north in the northbound lane of CR 25A and the victim was “positioned in the area of the roadside and east shoulder CR 25A,” north of (the SUV), according to the press release.
The victim, a 47-year-old Ocala man, not identified by name, was struck and sustained “fatal injuries,” the press release stated.
FHP had previously reported the hit and run death of a 35-year-old Ocala man riding a bicycle westbound on County Road 314 at Northeast 68th Court in Marion County by an unknown type of vehicle on Friday, Feb. 16, aroun 7:39 p.m. That location is about one mile east of State Road 35 (Baseline Road) on CR 314. CR 314 becomes Northeast 7th Street on the west side of SR 35.
According to an FHP press release, an unidentified 35- year-old Ocala man on a bicycle was traveling west on CR 314 “within the westbound travel lane” ahead of the unknown vehicle which was also westbound.
The unknown vehicle struck the bicyclist and “departed the scene,” to the FHP release.
The bicyclist died at a hospital, the FHP release stated.
Anyone with information about either crash can reach the local FHP office at (352) 512-6630
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