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Police release name of pedestrian killed while crossing Court Street in Clearwater

 
Published June 28, 2016

CLEARWATER — A man was killed after he was struck by one car and run over by another while crossing the street, police said late Monday.

Robert Wayne Coon was not using a crosswalk when he crossed Court Street from south to north between Missouri and Martin Luther King avenues. He was hit by a westbound car and then run over by a second westbound car. Police said Coon was 53 and homeless, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Both drivers stayed on the scene after the accident and neither was impaired, police said.