{"id":346111,"date":"2026-07-20T15:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346111\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:39:21","slug":"man-found-dead-near-fort-lauderdale-roadway-after-possible-hit-and-run-crash-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346111\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead near Fort Lauderdale roadway after possible hit-and-run crash, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 20, 2026 at 11:08 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/U4ZZHQNFUBEODNKICGG3Q57ZW4.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>(WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Fort Lauderdale police are investigating the death of a man whose body was discovered Monday morning along a roadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, the department was called at about 8:15 a.m. about a body being found along the 2600 block of West Commercial Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives believe the man might have been killed in a hit-and-run crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sky 10 was above the scene shortly before 10:30 a.m. as a damaged e-bike was in the grass near the roadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said FLPD\u2019s Traffic Homicide Unit is at the scene investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to call the FLPD or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 20, 2026 at 11:08 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(WPLG) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Fort Lauderdale police are investigating the death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-346111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346111","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=346111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}