{"id":279534,"date":"2026-05-21T14:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279534\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:21:09","slug":"florida-woman-arrested-after-deadly-hit-and-run-crash-in-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279534\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman arrested after deadly hit-and-run crash in Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A 20-year-old woman has been arrested after a deadly hit-and-run crash in Orange County over the weekend, according to Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/fox-local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Julia Blackwell, of Christmas, was booked into the Orange County Jail on Wednesday on a charge of leaving the scene of a crash involving death, FHP said.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wofl-julia-blackwell.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Julia Blackwell, 20. (Credit: Orange County Jail) <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The crash happened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/news\/pedestrian-killed-driver-missing-after-hit-and-run-crash-officials-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">around 5:10 a.m. Saturday<\/a> in a wooded area near State Road 520 and State Road 50.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35&#8217;S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to an FHP report, Blackwell hit a pedestrian &#8220;for an unknown reason&#8221; and fled the scene on foot.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The pedestrian, identified as a 56-year-old man from Christmas, died at the scene, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The crash remains under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written with information released by Florida Highway Patrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A 20-year-old woman has been arrested after a deadly hit-and-run crash in Orange County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,115,1335,628],"class_list":["post-279534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279534","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=279534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}