{"id":273819,"date":"2026-05-16T22:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273819\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:45:12","slug":"pedestrian-dead-driver-missing-after-fatal-hit-and-run-in-christmas-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273819\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dead, driver missing after fatal hit-and-run in Christmas \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian is dead after a fatal hit-and-run crash in Christmas, Orange County early Saturday morning, the Florida Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>FHP said the crash occurred in a wooded area northeast of State Road 520 and south Colonial Drive at approximately 5:10 a.m. The vehicle involved is a 2020 GMC Sierra.<\/p>\n<p>Post-collision, the driver of the GMC fled the scene on foot, FHP said. The pedestrian was pronounced dead on-scene.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about this crash is asked to call FHP (*347) or CRIMELINE 1-800-423-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian is dead after a fatal hit-and-run crash in Christmas, Orange County early Saturday morning, the Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,266,139,141,140,109],"class_list":["post-273819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273819","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=273819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}