{"id":322050,"date":"2026-06-27T20:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322050\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T20:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:58:38","slug":"driver-arrested-in-hit-and-run-that-killed-bicyclist-fort-lauderdale-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322050\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested in hit-and-run that killed bicyclist, Fort Lauderdale police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fort Lauderdale police arrested a woman they say drove a car that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article316268444.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:struck and killed a woman;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;struck and killed a woman&quot;}\" class=\"link \">struck and killed a woman<\/a> riding her bicycle on the Southeast 17th Street Causeway Bridge on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police ask anyone with information to call 954-764-4357.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale police arrested a woman they say drove a car that struck and killed a woman riding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[133509,53839,249,251,250,133508,133507],"class_list":["post-322050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-bicycle-lane","tag-broward-health-medical-center","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-janea-lashay-smith","tag-shelley-lewis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322050","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=322050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}