Crime & Safety
Hit-And-Run Driver Reports Fatal Crash on Bay Pines Blvd. After Going Home: FL Troopers
A bicyclist was killed in a fatal hit-and-run crash on Bay Pines Boulevard, Florida Highway Patrol said.
SEMINOLE, FL — A hit-and-run driver reported hitting a bicyclist, who died from his injuries, after leaving the scene of an early Thursday morning crash and going to his Seminole home, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release.
The bicyclist, a 64-year-old Naples man, was heading north in the 8700 block of Bay Pines Boulevard with a small trailer loaded with tree branches attached to it around 2:45 a.m.
Around the same time, Dominic Boeing, a 22-year-old Seminole man driving a Kia Optima, overtook and hit the bicyclist before leaving the scene, FHP said.
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The bicyclist was brought to a local hospital, where he later died.
Boeing reported the crash after returning to his home on 87th Place, where he was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving a death.
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