{"id":107606,"date":"2026-01-06T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107606\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:33:10","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-fort-lauderdale-hit-and-run-crash-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107606\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed in Fort Lauderdale hit-and-run crash, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Fort Lauderdale on Monday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was walking in the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/i9iQ567SHWfkgkv97\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:400 block of West Sunrise Boulevard;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">400 block of West Sunrise Boulevard<\/a> about 8 p.m. when a car hit him and drove away, Fort Lauderdale Police spokesperson Sgt. Patrick O\u2019Brien said in a statement. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers did not immediately have any information about the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Westbound traffic on West Sunrise Boulevard was being diverted northbound on North Andrews Avenue late Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story, so check back for updates. <a href=\"https:\/\/signups.medianewsgroup.com\/?site=sun-sentinel.com&amp;prefId=115\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to have breaking news alerts sent directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Fort Lauderdale on Monday night, police said. A man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,53838,55147],"class_list":["post-107606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-patrick-obrien","tag-west-sunrise-boulevard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}