{"id":373388,"date":"2026-08-17T03:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373388\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T03:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:56:09","slug":"officials-searching-for-driver-after-christmas-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373388\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials searching for driver after Christmas hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials searching for driver after Christmas hit-and-run seriously injures woman<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/793f47c8-6ef6-41d4-b0de-fb642812c23f_1774634837.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Madilyn Destefano\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>CHRISTMAS, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Authorities are searching for an SUV involved in a hit-and-run collision that seriously injured a woman Friday morning in Christmas.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Florida Highway Patrol said the woman was struck on State Road 50 while standing by her parked vehicle off the side of the road.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Highway Patrol officials believe the vehicle involved is an SUV, but no further description is available.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Anyone with information is urged to call 800-423-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p>Crimeline<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Crimeline\u2019s mission is to increase the safety of the Central Florida community by assisting law enforcement agencies in removing undesirable individuals from the community, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeline.org\/about\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mission statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Call Crimeline at 800-423-TIPS (8477).Leave a tip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/tipform.aspx?ID=156\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Tips that lead to the felony arrest of suspects and\/or the recovery of stolen property and drugs may be eligible for cash rewards of up to $1,000. All tips eligible for a reward are paid to tipsters using an anonymous process.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Central Florida Crimeline began in July 1977, originally named Crimewatch, modeled after the first Crime Stoppers program founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials searching for driver after Christmas hit-and-run seriously injures woman CHRISTMAS, Fla. \u2014 Authorities are searching for an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[150771,20460,44737,150769,2675,618,17649,2772,139,141,140,150770,481,11884,285,9644,147471,192],"class_list":["post-373388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-anonymous-process","tag-cash-reward","tag-central-florida-community","tag-christmas-hit-and-run","tag-driver","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-mission","tag-official","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-parked-vehicle","tag-property","tag-state-road","tag-suspect","tag-suv","tag-tip-online","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373388","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=373388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}