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Posted February 25 2006

An unlicensed driver struck and killed a man walking along Alligator Alley on Friday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

The man's car had broken down about 6 a.m. on Interstate 75 near mile marker 49 and he was walking east, said Sgt. Mark Wysocky with the Florida Highway Patrol. He said a box-style truck driven by Rodulfo Velazques, 26, of Immokalee, struck the man and kept driving.

Troopers investigating the crash found the truck abandoned at a nearby rest area and witnesses told them that several men left that truck and jumped in another. They caught up with the driver a short time later near U.S. 27.

Velazques was arrested on charges of leaving the scene of a crash with a fatality and driving with a suspended license. He is being held without bail in the Broward County main jail on an immigration hold.

The victim's identity was not released Friday.