{"id":130943,"date":"2026-01-25T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130943\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:00:08","slug":"video-shows-car-suspected-in-jacksonville-hit-and-run-that-killed-elderly-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130943\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows car suspected in Jacksonville hit-and-run that killed elderly man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver of a Dodge sedan is suspected in a hit-and-run that killed a 72-year-old on Vernon Road on Jan. 10. Surveillance video appears to show it near the scene.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office is hoping video evidence will help them track down the car and driver suspected in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/article\/news\/local\/jacksonville-hit-and-run-pedestrian-crash-vernon-road\/77-7e0a4b8c-4d36-435b-80d6-827ffe910404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> hit-and-run crash <\/a>that killed an elderly man in early January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/1ApCS2pk24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Surveillance video<\/a> shared Saturday shows a dark-colored sedan near the scene in the Magnolia Gardens area on Jan. 10. It was previously described as a Dodge.<\/p>\n<p>That day, officers responded to Vernon Road in reference to a crash just before 6 p.m. JSO said the 72-year-old victim was found in the roadway after being hit by an unknown vehicle, and the driver reportedly left the scene without rendering aid, calling for help or notifying police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken to a local hospital, where officials said he later died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are asking anyone with more information on the crash, the Dodge or the driver to contact JSO at 630-0500 or email JSOCrimeTIps@jaxsheriff.org. Anonymous tips can be made by contacting Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of a Dodge sedan is suspected in a hit-and-run that killed a 72-year-old on Vernon Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-130943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130943","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=130943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}