A deadly hit-and-run crash Thursday on the Howard Frankland Bridge left one person dead and another charged.
It started early in the afternoon when a car had mechanical trouble and pulled onto the side of I-275 northbound near the center of the span heading toward Tampa. Authorities say a passenger was standing along the fog line of the highway, inspecting the car, when a pickup truck drifted onto the shoulder and crashed into the person.
Investigators say the pickup truck driver kept going northbound on I-275 until corralled by other drivers near Kennedy Boulevard. Florida Highway Patrol arrived soon after, and troopers arrested Rosanio Rafael Bartolon-Morales for leaving the scene of a fatal crash and driving without a license resulting in death.
Bartolon-Morales was taken to the Hillsborough County Jail.
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