HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — Troopers are searching for an unknown driver who hit and killed a bicyclist in Hillsborough County on Dec. 20, authorities said.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) report, the unknown driver was traveling westbound on U.S. Highway 92, east of Mobile Villa Drive, at about 10:37 p.m.
The vehicle then traveled onto the shoulder of the highway and hit a bicyclist, who was also traveling westbound, FHP officials said.
Following the collision, the driver fled the scene in a vehicle described as possibly a silver or dark-colored mid-sized SUV, the report stated.
The bicyclist, a 38-year-old Nicaraguan man, died at the scene.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call *FHP (*347) or Crime Stoppers at **TIPS.
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