Pedestrian, 16, hit and killed by vehicle on SR 44 near I-75

Florida Highway Patrol troopers are investigating a deadly crash involving a pedestrian in Wildwood.

Just before 10 p.m. on Dec. 16, a 21-year-old Lady Lake man driving a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck east on State Road 44 struck and killed a 16-year-old Wildwood boy who was walking across the road.

FHP reported that the pedestrian entered the path of Tacoma just west of Sumter County Road 229, near Interstate 75…

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