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FHP searching for driver who ran over woman at Cracker Barrel in Fort Myers

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FORT MYERS, Fla. — Florid Highway Patrol is searching for the driver of a pickup truck that hit a woman in the parking lot of Cracker Barrel in Fort Myers.

At about 11:30 a.m., March 8, surveillance video captured the incident.

**WARNING: VIDEO MAY BE DISTURBING FOR SOME VIEWERS**

A white pickup truck towing a utility trailer was stopped in the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store parking lot at 4260 Boatways Road.

A woman was kneeling in the parking lot, at a distance, off to the right of the truck.

As the pickup pulled forward to exit the lot, the right front tire runs over the woman.

The truck kept going and turned left onto Boatways Road as the driver fled the scene.

The victim, a 49-year-old woman from Cape Coral, was transported to Lee Memorial Hospital with serious injuries.

FHP says the truck is possibly a white, Ford F250 pickup.

Anyone with information is asked to please call *FHP or Crimestoppers.