{"id":385477,"date":"2026-08-30T19:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385477\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T19:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:02:10","slug":"19-year-old-arrested-after-fatal-orange-county-hit-and-run-crash-fhp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385477\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old arrested after fatal Orange County hit-and-run crash, FHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"

19-year-old arrested after fatal Orange County hit-and-run crash, FHP says<\/p>\n

A pickup driver ran a red light, struck a sedan and fled on foot, leaving one man dead and a woman seriously injured, the Florida Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n

\"ChristianORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

A 19-year-old Orlando man was arrested after a two-vehicle crash early Sunday killed one person and seriously injured another, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n

The crash occurred about 2:46 a.m. at Central Florida Parkway and International Drive in Orange County.<\/p>\n

FHP says Christopher Laureda was driving a 2004 Ford F-250 west on Central Florida Parkway when he ran a red light and entered the path of a southbound 2025 Volkswagen Jetta. The pickup struck the left side of the sedan and overturned.<\/p>\n

The Jetta\u2019s driver, a 29-year-old man from Bridgeport, Connecticut, was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, according to FHP. His name was not released.<\/p>\n

A 23-year-old female passenger from Norwalk, Connecticut, was taken to the hospital as a trauma alert with serious injuries; her name was also not released.<\/p>\n

FHP said Laureda fled on foot after the crash. Orange County sheriff\u2019s deputies later found and detained him.<\/p>\n

Laureda was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of a crash and DUI involving death, according to FHP. Additional charges are pending.<\/p>\n

Four passengers in the pickup suffered minor injuries and remained at the scene, FHP said.<\/p>\n

The crash remains under investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"19-year-old arrested after fatal Orange County hit-and-run crash, FHP says A pickup driver ran a red light, struck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-385477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385477","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=385477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}