{"id":320274,"date":"2026-06-26T03:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/320274\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T03:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:57:09","slug":"hit-and-run-driver-arrested-for-collision-that-killed-bicyclist-on-fort-lauderdale-bridge-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/320274\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit-and-run driver arrested for collision that killed bicyclist on Fort Lauderdale bridge, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old woman was arrested after allegedly striking and killing a bicyclist Thursday morning in a hit-and-run collision, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale police announced the arrest of Don Janea Smith on Friday afternoon. She is facing a felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident involving death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The collision occurred at 6:40 a.m. in the eastbound protected bicycle lane on the 17th Street Causeway bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was identified as 68-year-old Shelley Lewis of Fort Lauderdale. Witnesses reported that a black vehicle struck Lewis and fled the scene. It remains unclear why the vehicle was in the bicycle-only lane.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics rushed Lewis to a nearby hospital, where she died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities reported the first 911 call at 6:40 a.m. A witness told dispatchers, &#8220;Someone was bicycling in the bicycle lane. A vehicle hit the person. The person is lying down right now, seemingly unconscious, bicycle torn up. The vehicle continued.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police have obtained surveillance video of the crash, though investigators said they will not release the footage at this time. Officers have since located and arrested Smith, but t<\/p>\n<p>Detectives say that Smith could face additional charges depending on what their investigation reveals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old woman was arrested after allegedly striking and killing a bicyclist Thursday morning in a hit-and-run collision,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,2337,249,251,250,5154],"class_list":["post-320274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-fatal-crash","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-hit-and-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320274","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=320274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}