{"id":363496,"date":"2026-08-05T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/363496\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:46:09","slug":"fort-pierce-police-seek-driver-in-crash-involving-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/363496\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Pierce police seek driver in crash involving children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Pierce police search for driver in hit-and-run involving two children<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785944769_86_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Vanessa Laurent\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The Fort Pierce Police Department is searching for a driver accused of hitting two children with a car and then leaving the scene over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Stay up to date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">According to police, the crash happened Saturday on 25th Street near the Elks Lodge in Fort Pierce.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Investigators said the driver, believed to be between 20 and 30 years old, stopped briefly to check on the children after the crash but then drove away before authorities arrived.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Police are looking for a gold Mercedes-Benz that may have damage to the driver&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">One of the children was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening. The condition of the second child has not been released.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Anyone with information about the driver or the vehicle is asked to contact the Fort Pierce Police Department.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Get the latest weather updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Pierce police search for driver in hit-and-run involving two children FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 The Fort Pierce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-363496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363496","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=363496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}