Of all the things to crash your car into... an alligator has to be the most Florida of them all. The collision caused the 59-year-old's car to veer off the road and into a ditch, where a passerby found him and then called police. When officers arrived, they found both John Hopkins and the alligator dead.
Word is despite a large alligator population in Florida, car accidents involving them are extremely rare.
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