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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – An 11-year-old Orange County<\/a> boy is recovering from a broken bone, bruises and scrapes after being hit by a car while riding his e-scooter.<\/p>\n The Florida Highway Patrol is currently searching for the hit-and-run driver responsible for striking Josiah Marin along East Colonial Drive.<\/p>\n ‘Do the right thing, and turn yourself in’ <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Josiah Marin, 11, was riding his e-scooter down the sidewalk along East Colonial Drive when he decided to take a quick trip to the nearby gas station for a cold drink.\u00a0<\/p>\n That’s when he saw a vehicle waiting at a business entrance.<\/p>\n “I see this car waiting\u2014oh okay, he’s waiting, I could probably pass by him real quick,” Josiah told FOX 35’s Alexus Cleavenger. “I’m like okay, he sees me, so I kind of slow down in the middle of it.”<\/p>\n But seconds later, the driver hit him, and he fell to the ground, Josiah said. The driver rolled down their window to ask if he was okay, Josiah told Cleavenger.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I say I’m alright because I’m kind of in shock,” Josiah explained.<\/p>\n But instead of pulling over and stopping, the driver left the scene, according to FHP.<\/p>\n The road to recovery <\/p>\n Josiah managed to get up and walk home in pain. His sister quickly rushed him to the hospital.<\/p>\n His dad, Raymond Marin, met them there. He said the doctor told them Josiah got hit pretty hard.<\/p>\n “They were very concerned with the type of break that he had,” Raymond Marin said.<\/p>\n While Josiah avoided a head injury, he suffered a broken bone in his arm alongside bruises and scratches across his body.<\/p>\n Family demands accountability <\/p>\n As Josiah focuses on healing, his father wants the person who drove away to be held accountable.<\/p>\n “I mean, you don’t leave a scene like that, especially when a child is hurt or injured,” Raymond said. “Do the right thing, and turn yourself in.”<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The Florida Highway Patrol is pursuing an active criminal investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Anyone who witnessed the crash or has information about the driver or vehicle involved is urged to contact FHP by dialing *347 or calling Crimeline anonymously at 1-800-423-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story was gathered from reporting by FOX 35’s Alexus Cleavenger and the Florida Highway Patrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Orange County News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – An 11-year-old Orange County boy is recovering from a broken bone, bruises and scrapes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349263,"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-349262","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\/349262","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=349262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wofl-11-year-old-josiah-marinrecovering-after-orlando-hit-and-run.jpg\")
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