{"id":276817,"date":"2026-05-19T16:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276817\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:35:08","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-in-apopka-troopers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276817\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run crash in Apopka, troopers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">APOPKA, Fla.  \u2013 A pedestrian was struck and killed in a hit-and-run crash late Monday night in Apopka, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The crash occurred around 11:30 p.m. at the intersection of Marvin C. Zanders Avenue and West 17th Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to an FHP report, an unknown vehicle was traveling south on Marvin C. Zanders Avenue when it struck a pedestrian who was \u201cpossibly laying in the southbound travel lane\u201d, north of West 17th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The driver did not stop after the collision, continuing south on Marvin C. Zanders Avenue. The pedestrian, a 46-year-old male from Apopka, was pronounced dead at the scene, troopers said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">At this time, FHP said there is no information on the suspect vehicle or its driver. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact FHP by dialing *347 or Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS. <\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"APOPKA, Fla. \u2013 A pedestrian was struck and killed in a hit-and-run crash late Monday night in Apopka,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10514,28,30,29,1335,729],"class_list":["post-276817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-apopka","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-orange-county","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276817","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=276817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}