Fort Lauderdale police searching for driver in fatal hit-and-run crash

Plantation man struck, killed while crossing West Davie Boulevard

Police said a Ford Thunderbird similar to the one pictured above was involved in the hit-and-run crash.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Police are searching for a driver who killed a pedestrian in a hit-and-run crash last month along West Davie Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale.

Casey Liening, a spokeswoman for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, said George Storoshenko, 58, of Plantation, was crossing Davie Boulevard near Southwest 33rd Terrace around 7 p.m. Feb. 12 when he was struck by a maroon, older model Ford Thunderbird. Liening said the driver stopped momentarily but did not help Storoshenko. 

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Paramedics transported Storoshenko to Broward Health Medical Center, where he died Feb. 26.

Liening said the Thunderbird would have extensive front-end damage. Witnesses described the driver as a white man between 50 to 60 years old with salt-and-pepper hair.

Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact Traffic Homicide Investigator P. Williams at 954-828-5755 or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-471-TIPS.


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