{"id":314908,"date":"2026-06-21T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314908\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:51:07","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-being-hit-by-vehicle-in-sanford-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314908\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after being hit by vehicle in Sanford, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver stayed at the scene after the crash near French Avenue and 27th Street, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Sanford Police (Generic) (Anthony Talcott,  Anthony Talcott)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">SANFORD, Fla \u2013 A pedestrian has died after being struck by a vehicle late Friday in Sanford, according to the Sanford Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Police said officers heard a traffic crash around 11 p.m. June 19 in the area of French Avenue and 27th Street. Officers found a pedestrian who had been hit in the roadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The pedestrian was taken to a local hospital, where medical staff later pronounced the person dead, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 bTVksG\">Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver stayed at the scene after the crash near French Avenue and 27th Street, police said. Sanford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[690,28,30,29,131027,2647,130737,53064],"class_list":["post-314908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-accident","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-pedestrian-death-sanford","tag-sanford","tag-sanford-news","tag-traffic-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314908","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=314908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}