Pedro Alvarado: Drunk driver without license kills 3-years-old girl and man in Florida car crash

FORT MYERS, FLORIDA: Florida Highway Patrol recently reported that a drunk driver, who did not have a license, killed a Fort Myers man and a 3-year-old girl in a head-on collision on Sunday, December 17 night. The driver has been identified as Pedro Eliseo Alvarez Alvarado.

Another adult and two other children in the car sustained serious injuries in the North Fort Myers incident, a crash report states.

Pedro Alvarado was driving without a license

Pedro Alvarado, 22, a resident of Fort Myers, was driving without a license in the west on Bayshore Road near Ixora Drive when, at around 9:35 pm, according to troopers, he crossed the paved median, struck a Hyundai sedan head-on, and then collided with a Toyota pickup.

The toddler and the driver of the Hyundai, a 28-year-old male from Fort Myers, died. Three other Fort Myers residents -- a 27-year-old woman, a 2-year-old child, and an 8-year-old girl -- were also in the car and were transported to a hospital in critical condition.

According to authorities, neither the driver of the Toyota, a 46-year-old woman from North Fort Myers, nor her passenger, a 20-year-old man, suffered any injuries.

The case remains under investigation

The drunken car crash remains under investigation. Alvarez Alvarado remained in Lee County Jail on December 18 morning, however, bond information was unavailable. 

The child and driver are among at least 112 people killed on Lee County roads in 2023. As per Wink News, Lieutenant Greg Bueno said, "These crashes happen way too often."

He elaborated, “For, you know, two adults, three young children to be traveling in a vehicle doing nothing wrong, to have all that taken from them, in the moments of a horrible judgment made by an impaired driver is inexcusable."

For now, the police have placed Alverado under arrest for DUI manslaughter and no driver’s license.