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An investigator silhouettes a bicycle with evidence paint on the Southeast 17th Street Causeway Bridge on Thursday, June 25, 2026, in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n
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Fort Lauderdale police arrested a woman they say drove a car that struck and killed a woman<\/a> riding her bicycle on the Southeast 17th Street Causeway Bridge on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n Don Janea Lashay Smith, 22, is being held at the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office\u2019s main jail in Fort Lauderdale on a charge of failing to remain at the scene of an accident involving death and another count of evidence tampering.<\/p>\n Fort Lauderdale police say Smith hit 68-year-old Shelley Lewis as she rode eastbound in the bicycle lane of the bridge around 6:40 a.m. Paramedics took Lewis to Broward Health Medical Center, where she died, said Fort Lauderdale police spokeswoman Casey Liening.<\/p>\n Police released a 911 call in which a man reporting the incident said Lewis was \u201cclearly in the bicycle lane\u201d when the car struck her.<\/p>\n \u201cThis bicycle lane is actually a wide one, so I\u2019m not sure how this vehicle could have hit her,\u201d the man said, adding the car that hit her was a black sedan.<\/p>\n Another witness told a 911 dispatcher that Lewis was lying unconscious on the bridge, wearing a helmet, and that the bike was \u201cmangled up.\u201d<\/p>\n A judge set Smith\u2019s bond at $101,000. Information about her legal representation was not immediately available. Liening said Smith might face more charges pending the outcome of traffic-homicide detectives\u2019 investigation.<\/p>\n Police ask anyone with information to call 954-764-4357.<\/p>\n
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