{"id":275447,"date":"2026-05-18T18:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275447\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:27:07","slug":"fhp-14-year-old-boy-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-driver-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275447\/","title":{"rendered":"FHP: 14-year-old boy killed in hit-and-run crash, driver arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GADSDEN COUNTY, Fla. (WCTV) &#8211; A 14-year-old boy is dead after a hit-and-run crash in Gadsden County, Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said the crash happened along US-27 and John Yawn Place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to FHP, the vehicle driven by a 22-year-old Arkansas woman, drove off the road onto the shoulder where it struck the teen who was riding a bicycle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said the young boy was taken to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After the crash, the vehicle left the scene. Leon County deputies later found the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop. FHP troopers responded to the scene and arrested the driver for suspected DUI and other charges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash is under investigation, and we will update this story as more information is released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To keep up with the latest news as it develops, follow WCTV on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WCTV.tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wctvnews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WCTVEyewitnessNews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nextdoor<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Have a news tip or see an error? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2026\/05\/18\/fhp-14-year-old-boy-killed-hit-and-run-crash-driver-arrested\/mailto:news@wctv.tv?subject=Correction%20Needed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Write to us here<\/a>. 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(WCTV) &#8211; A 14-year-old boy is dead after a hit-and-run crash in Gadsden County, Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[72782,19506,14837,1776,2624,38715,3530,31676,25986,23883,12929,7228,232,234,233,1953,40963,164],"class_list":["post-275447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-72782","tag-and","tag-boy","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-fatal","tag-gcso","tag-havana","tag-hit","tag-old","tag-run","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-teen","tag-teenager","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275447","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=275447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}