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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A man in a wheelchair and a dog were killed Thursday in a hit-and-run crash in Orange County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
The crash happened just before 9 p.m., March 19, near the intersection of Lee Road and Adanson Street in Orlando.<\/p>\n
CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n A driver was traveling eastbound on Lee Road when he ran off the road and hit a man, woman and a dog who were standing on the curbed median, according to the FHP report.<\/p>\n Debris from the wheelchair hit a Toyota Tacoma that was stopped in the turn lane on Lee Road, FHP said.<\/p>\n A man in a wheelchair and a dog were killed in a hit-and-run crash in Orange County on March 19, 2026, according to Florida Highway Patrol.\u00a0 <\/p>\n SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35’S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/a><\/p>\n The man in the wheelchair and the dog were declared dead at the scene. A woman was taken to the hospital in stable but critical condition, according to FHP.<\/p>\n \u2018Leaving the scene of the crash\u2019 <\/p>\n The driver left the scene after the crash, FHP said. An unoccupied vehicle with “damage consistent with the crash” was later found unoccupied in a nearby parking lot, according to investigators.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n FHP said investigators are collecting evidence to determine who was driving the vehicle at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n “This is a very active criminal investigation,” FHP told FOX 35. “Charges will not be made until the entire traffic homicide investigation is complete.”<\/p>\n Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call FHP at *347 or Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS.<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written with information released by Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n Orange County News<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A man in a wheelchair and a dog were killed Thursday in a hit-and-run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[630,47,115,1335,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-200975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200975","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=200975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wofl-lee-road-hit-and-run-crash.jpg\")
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