{"id":109321,"date":"2026-01-07T18:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/109321\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:02:06","slug":"box-truck-hits-drags-bicyclist-before-driving-away-fhp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/109321\/","title":{"rendered":"Box truck hits, drags bicyclist before driving away, FHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAn Orlando man was arrested after troopers say he hit a bicyclist with his box truck and drove awayA Florida Highway Patrol arrest affidavit says troopers responded to the hit-and-run crash shortly after 8 p.m. on Tuesday near the intersection of Orange Blossom Trail and Woodsmere Avenue. Witnesses told FHP that the driver, later identified as Jose Batista Grullon, exited a side street hitting the bicyclist. He then slowed, and continued driving, dragging the bicyclist into the middle of the road. Batista Grullon, 41, is facing a hit-and-run charge with failure to remain at the scene involving severe bodily injury, according to an arrest affidavit. FHP said the person on the bicycle was transported to a hospital with a fractured pelvis and internal bleeding, the report says. That person&#8217;s condition has not been released. &gt;&gt; This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>An Orlando man was arrested after troopers say he hit a bicyclist with his box truck and drove away<\/p>\n<p>A Florida Highway Patrol arrest affidavit says troopers responded to the hit-and-run crash shortly after 8 p.m. on Tuesday near the intersection of Orange Blossom Trail and Woodsmere Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told FHP that the driver, later identified as Jose Batista Grullon, exited a side street hitting the bicyclist. He then slowed, and continued driving, dragging the bicyclist into the middle of the road. <\/p>\n<p>Batista Grullon, 41, is facing a hit-and-run charge with failure to remain at the scene involving severe bodily injury, according to an arrest affidavit. <\/p>\n<p>FHP said the person on the bicycle was transported to a hospital with a fractured pelvis and internal bleeding, the report says. That person&#8217;s condition has not been released. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Orlando man was arrested after troopers say he hit a bicyclist with his box truck and drove&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38060,48577,1056,55937,55938,2620,55935,2391,12744,139,141,140,666,725,8774,1464,224,55936],"class_list":["post-109321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-bicyclist","tag-box-truck","tag-fhp","tag-fractured-pelvis","tag-internal-bleeding","tag-intersection","tag-jose-batista-grullon","tag-man","tag-orange-blossom-trail","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-person","tag-scene","tag-trooper","tag-tuesday","tag-witness","tag-woodsmere-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109321","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=109321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}