{"id":259331,"date":"2026-05-05T15:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259331\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:36:07","slug":"woman-pleads-guilty-in-fatal-10-cent-bridge-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259331\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman pleads guilty in fatal 10-Cent Bridge hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"

The woman accused of killing a bicyclist on the 10-Cent Bridge<\/a> in June 2024 has pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter and leaving the scene of a crash involving death. <\/p>\n

Elise Elder, 25, entered the plea in Martin County court on April 27, nearly two years after Martin Drummond<\/a> was killed riding his bike on the 10-Cent Bridge on June 28, 2024. <\/p>\n

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Notably, Elder did not check a box on the plea form admitting guilt, but rather one that states she believes the plea is in her best interest. <\/p>\n

As part of the sentencing recommendation, Elder could have her driver’s license permanently revoked. <\/p>\n

Florida Highway Patrol said 67-year-old Drummond was riding his bike east on A1A toward South Sewall’s Point Road \u2014 in the bike lane \u2014 at approximately 6:45 a.m. the morning of the crash, when Elder’s 2019 BMW 535I went into the bike lane and rear-ended the bicyclist. She then fled the scene and was arrested at her residence. <\/p>\n

Drummond, a well-known member of the Stuart community<\/a>, was the publisher of a local magazine and known as a mentor and spiritual leader.<\/p>\n

Drummond’s family filed a civil lawsuit against Elder as well. <\/p>\n

Elder will be sentenced on June 26. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman accused of killing a bicyclist on the 10-Cent Bridge in June 2024 has pleaded guilty to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[112283,112284,28,1160,112285,171,173,172,179,12758],"class_list":["post-259331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-10-cent-bridge","tag-elise-elder","tag-florida","tag-martin-county","tag-martin-drummond","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-treasure-coast","tag-wptv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259331","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=259331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}