A 28-year-old woman driving a Volvo S40 was traveling south on Lewis Avenue near Hickory Drive in Beach Park sometime before 4:20 a.m. when she did not see a man lying down in the southbound lanes and ran him over, police said.
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Lake County Sheriff's Office Technical Crash investigators are working to determine the man's identity and investigate why he may have been in the roadway.
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The man was dead when deputies arrived, police said.
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The Lake County Coroner's Office is scheduling an autopsy.