ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 41-year-old Ponte Vedra man was arrested Tuesday afternoon following a hit-and-run crash, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office (SJSO).<\/p>\n
Deputies say Christopher John Bondani was behind the wheel when his car was involved in a crash on A1A North in Ponte Vedra Beach just after 3:30 p.m. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n When deputies tried to pull Bondani over, officials say he didn\u2019t stop, even after patrol cars activated lights and sirens. <\/p>\n The chase ended in a neighborhood on Payasada Circle, where deputies took him into custody.<\/p>\n According to the arrest report, Bondani told officers he didn\u2019t realize he\u2019d been in a crash and was just trying to get home.<\/p>\n Deputies reported smelling alcohol and found two empty cans of hard seltzer in his car.<\/p>\n Bondani refused to take a breath test at the scene and again at the county jail, authorities said.<\/p>\n According to the Florida Bar website, Bondani is an attorney at Hill & Bondani, PLLC in St. Johns County. Public records<\/a> show he was suspended with conditions in 2019.<\/p>\n SJSO says he now faces several charges, including DUI, leaving the scene of a crash with injuries, fleeing law enforcement, and refusing DUI testing.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 41-year-old Ponte Vedra man was arrested Tuesday afternoon following a hit-and-run crash,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,28,348,116,351,118,117,349,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-132448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-northeast-florida","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132448","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=132448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}