{"id":154547,"date":"2026-02-13T17:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154547\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:09:30","slug":"woman-arrested-in-hit-and-run-crash-that-killed-60-year-old-man-on-clearwater-crosswalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154547\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested in hit-and-run crash that killed 60-year-old man on Clearwater crosswalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 51-year-old woman has been charged with leaving the scene of a hit-and-run that killed a Clearwater father.<\/p>\n<p>CLEARWATER, Fla. \u2014 Clearwater police say they arrested the driver responsible for the Feb. 4 hit-and-run crash on Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard that killed 60-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/local\/pinellascounty\/clearwater-deadly-hit-and-run-police-looking-for-driver-father-killed\/67-3cf6ab2c-145f-4f51-a2c5-a15b369878a0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Elbert Gilbert.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dawn Dunkle, 51, was arrested Friday morning and charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say Dunkle was driving the 2024 red Ford Mustang that hit Gilbert while he was in a marked crosswalk. After hitting Gilbert, Dunkle did not call 911 or stop to render aid, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She fled the scene, but parts of her car were left behind,&#8221; the police department wrote in a post.<\/p>\n<p>When investigators located the car a few days later, they said the Mustang had damage consistent with a crash involving a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0According to Clearwater police, Dunkle told others she thought she had hit a box or speed bump.<\/p>\n<p>Dunkle was charged with possession of a controlled substance and was booked into the Pinellas County Jail on Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 51-year-old woman has been charged with leaving the scene of a hit-and-run that killed a Clearwater father.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-154547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154547","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=154547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}