Hit-and-run driver fatally strikes pedestrian on US 19

PALM HARBOR, FL – An impaired driver fled the scene after fatally colliding with a pedestrian on S US 19 Saturday, according to WFLA.

Cheddy Herland Lewis, 33, hit the pedestrian, a 40-year-old male, as he was running across the highway sometime Saturday morning.

Officers located Lewis sometime later at Alderman Road and Belcher Road. Police arrested Lewis on a charge of DUI. Other charges are pending.

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