OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – A 54-year-old man was struck by a car and killed early Saturday while walking in northbound lanes of Florida’s Turnpike in Osceola County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Troopers said the crash happened around 1:30 a.m. at mile marker 217 after the man, of Manly, Iowa, got out of a vehicle that had stopped on the shoulder southbound, in which he had been a passenger.
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The man ran across southbound lanes and into northbound lanes, where troopers said he began to walk. A car headed northbound then struck the man, according to a crash report.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene, troopers said. The driver of the car that struck him, a 24-year-old Hallendale Beach man, was not injured in the crash, the report stated.
No other details were disclosed.
Troopers said the crash is still under investigation.