{"id":349023,"date":"2026-07-22T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349023\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:54:09","slug":"fhp-bicyclist-killed-in-crash-involving-tesla-in-east-orange-county-prompting-closure-of-eb-colonial-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349023\/","title":{"rendered":"FHP: Bicyclist killed in crash involving Tesla in East Orange County, prompting closure of EB Colonial Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; A bicyclist was killed Wednesday afternoon in a crash involving a Tesla on State Road 50 (East Colonial Drive) in East Orange County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Portions of East Colonial Drive are closed for the investigation. These lane closures also impact any traffic attempting to access State Road 408 to Orlando, and commuters should plan an alternate route.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The crash happened about 1:21 p.m. at the intersection of East Colonial Drive and Woodbury Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/fox-local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Troopers said the collision involved a 2022 Tesla Model 3 and an adult male bicyclist.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The bicyclist was pronounced dead at the scene. The identity of the deceased was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wofl-tesla-hits-and-killed-bicyclist.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Credit: Florida Department of Transportation <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wofl-tesla-hits-and-killed-bicyclist2.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Tesla driver, an adult woman, was taken to AdventHealth East Hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35&#8217;S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Eastbound lanes of East Colonial Drive were closed at the crash scene while investigators worked to determine what led to the collision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written based on information shared by the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; A bicyclist was killed Wednesday afternoon in a crash involving a Tesla on State Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[630,47,115,1335,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-349023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349023","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=349023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}