State patrol seeks witnesses to fatal pedestrian crash in hit-and-run incident in Denver

Colorado State Patrol is seeking witnesses to a fatal crash that killed a jaywalking pedestrian Wednesday night in southeast Denver.

Authorities first responded around 9:45 p.m. to a report of a struck pedestrian at the intersection of East Florida Avenue and South Alton Street in southeast Denver, CSP said in a news release Thursday morning.

The initial investigation has found that the pedestrian, a 31-year-old man wearing dark-colored clothing, was crossing the intersection but not in the crosswalk when a black Land Rover Discovery traveling westbound on East Florida Avenue hit him in the left lane, authorities said. The man was then hit again in the right lane by another vehicle, dragging him farther west of the intersection…

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