{"id":129283,"date":"2026-01-23T16:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/129283\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:08:11","slug":"orlando-man-struck-killed-while-riding-e-bike-on-oak-ridge-road-in-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/129283\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando man struck, killed while riding e-bike on Oak Ridge Road in Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 A 44-year-old Orlando man was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/traffic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/traffic\/\">struck and killed<\/a> by a vehicle late Thursday while riding an e-bike in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Orange_County\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Orange_County\/\">Orange County<\/a>, the Florida Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The fatal wreck happened around 10:30 p.m. on West Oak Ridge Road at Harcourt Avenue, west of Florida\u2019s Turnpike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The FHP said a 40-year-old Orlando man was driving a 2016 Kia Optima east on Oak Ridge Road when he struck an e-bike that was traveling in the crosswalk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[VIDEO BELOW: Trooper Steve on e-bike rules in Florida]<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The 44-year-old e-bike rider was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center and was pronounced dead, according to an FHP crash report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Kia driver was not injured and remained at the scene, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[VIDEO BELOW: Florida cracks down on \u2018Super Speeders\u2019]<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 A 44-year-old Orlando man was struck and killed by a vehicle late Thursday while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2337,50728,1335,139,141,140,729],"class_list":["post-129283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-fatal-crash","tag-oak-ridge-road","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129283","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=129283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}