{"id":379416,"date":"2026-08-24T03:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379416\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T03:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:08:26","slug":"man-arrested-after-deadly-hit-and-run-crash-in-apopka-fhp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379416\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after deadly hit-and-run crash in Apopka, FHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wofl-jason-salustro-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Jason Salustro, 46. (Credit: Orange County Corrections) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; An Orlando man was arrested after a deadly hit-and-run crash in Apopka on Tuesday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The crash happened just before 7:30 p.m. on Clarcona Road and Gilliam Road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The suspect, identified as 46-year-old Jason Salustro, was driving a Chevy Tahoe south on Clarcona Road when he tried to make a left turn onto Gilliam Road, FHP said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Tahoe hit the front of a Honda Civic that was driven by a 37-year-old man from Orlando, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The driver of the Civic was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. According to an FHP report, he was not wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">After the crash, witnesses told officials they saw the driver of the Tahoe leave the scene on foot.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Salustro was found a mile from the crash and arrested, FHP said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He was booked into the Orange County Jail.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to jail records, Salustro faces a charge of leaving the scene of a crash involving death.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FHP said the crash is still under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written with information released by the Florida Highway Patrol.\u00a0<\/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\/us\/fl\/orange-county\/apopka\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apopka<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Jason Salustro, 46. (Credit: Orange County Corrections) ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; An Orlando man was arrested after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10514,47,115,1335,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-379416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-apopka","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\/379416","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=379416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}