HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — A woman who got out of her vehicle on Interstate 4 to look for her cell phone on Friday was hit and killed by a vehicle in Hillsborough County, the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said.
The victim, a 23-year-old Davenport woman, had stopped her Dodge pickup truck along the shoulder of I-4 at about 8:45 p.m., west of State Road 39.
She began walking along the shoulder of I-4 to look for the cell phone, which had fallen from the vehicle, the FHP report stated.
When she found the phone, the woman stepped into the path of a Hyundai Elantra, driven by a 34-year-old Brandon woman, who was traveling eastbound on I-4.
The victim was hit by the car and pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver was not injured.
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