{"id":296731,"date":"2026-06-05T03:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296731\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T03:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:45:09","slug":"vehicle-pedestrian-crash-turns-fatal-in-winter-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296731\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle-pedestrian crash turns fatal in Winter Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h957314-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Winter Garden Police Department responded to a vehicle versus pedestrian crash Thursday, May 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h957314-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">According to WGPD, at approximately 8:46 p.m., a 2021 GMC Sierra was traveling on East Story Road and made a turn onto South Dillard Street, striking a pedestrian who was crossing South Dillard Street within the marked crosswalk on the south side of the intersection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h957314-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">When Winter Garden Fire Department arrived on scene, firefighters immediately began providing medical treatment and transporting the pedestrian to Orlando Health &#8211; Health Central Hospital, but was pronounced dead en route. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h957314-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">The pedestrian was identified as David Jimenez, 41.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h957314-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Winter Garden Police Department&#8217;s Traffic Homicide Unit responded to conduct an investigation, which now is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h957314-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">WGPD said the driver of the pickup truck remained at the scene and was fully cooperative with investigators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winter Garden Police Department responded to a vehicle versus pedestrian crash Thursday, May 28.\u00a0 According to WGPD,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-296731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296731","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=296731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}