{"id":273445,"date":"2026-05-16T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273445\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:04:09","slug":"florida-highway-patrol-investigates-deadly-christmas-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273445\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Highway Patrol investigates deadly Christmas crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A pedestrian was killed in a crash early Saturday morning in the community of Christmas, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Troopers said the crash happened around 5:10 a.m. in a wooded area northeast of State Road 520 and south of State Road 50 (Colonial Drive) in eastern Orange County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say the crash involved a 2020 GMC Sierra pickup truck and a pedestrian whose identity has not yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to FHP, the driver of the GMC Sierra fled the scene on foot after the crash. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation remains ongoing, and additional details have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact the Florida Highway Patrol by dialing *347 or call CRIMELINE at 1-800-423-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian was killed in a crash early Saturday morning in the community of Christmas, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[66683,28,30,618,29,116929,116928],"class_list":["post-273445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-eastern-orange-county","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-florida-news","tag-state-road-50","tag-state-road-520"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273445","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=273445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}