LAKE COUNTY, FL – The Florida Highway Patrol has made an arrest in the case of a collision that killed a motorist in Lake County on Jan. 13, according to the Leesburg News.
The crash happened on US-27 at Margaux Drive shortly before 7 p.m. According to the FHP, the vehicle of a 37-year-old Auburndale man had broken down and he was standing behind it, directing traffic to the next lane. A tow truck driver stopped partially in the outside lane and on the shoulder of the road to assist the man.
State troopers said that at that point, the driver of a Kia Soul was heading south on US-27 in the outside lane and failed to move over. The Kia then struck the 37-year-old pedestrian, causing him to hit the driver’s side mirror of the tow truck. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Kia fled the scene, but the FHP located the vehicle in a hotel parking lot following an anonymous tip on Wednesday night.
The next morning, 49-year-old Charles William Millan Ramirez of Davenport turned himself in at the Clermont Police Department in connection with the case. The FHP arrested him for leaving the scene of a crash involving death, and he was held without bond at the Lake County Jail.
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