FILE - An alligator floats in a pond Sunday, March 20, 2022, at Innisbrook in Palm Harbour, Fla. (AP Photograph/Chris O'Meara)
A Florida man has died after crashing his automotive into an 11-foot (3.3-metre) alligator.
The crash occurred after midnight on Thursday, in keeping with an announcement from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Workplace.
John Hopkins, 59, was driving east on County Street 672 in LIthia, about two miles west of County Street 39, when he struck an 11-foot alligator within the roadway. Lithia is about 25 miles east of Tampa.
Hopkins' automotive "veered off the highway" and become a ditch, the place a passing driver observed it and known as 911, the sheriff's workplace stated.
Hopkins and the alligator had been each deceased when detectives arrived on the scene.
Florida and Louisiana have the nation's largest alligator populations -- with round 1.3 million wild alligators in Florida alone, in keeping with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Fee.
Nonetheless, a consultant of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Workplace instructed CNN automotive crashes involving alligators are "not widespread."
The sheriff's workplace will conduct an ordinary deadly crash investigation to find out what components could have contributed to the accident.
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