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Winter Park police investigate crash on Orlando Avenue.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
WINTER PARK, Fla. – A motorcyclist was killed early Tuesday in a crash with a van in Winter Park<\/a>, and the van\u2019s driver was later arrested on a DUI charge, police said.<\/p>\n Deadly hit-and-run <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Winter Park police responded around 2:17 a.m. to the area of Minnesota and Orlando avenues after receiving a report of a crash involving a motorcycle and a van.<\/p>\n Police said the van left the scene after the crash. Maitland police later located the vehicle near U.S. 17-92 and O\u2019Brien Road.<\/p>\n The motorcyclist was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n Bryan Eric Christian, 40, was arrested and booked into the Seminole County Jail on a charge of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, Oct. 6, 2026. <\/p>\n The van\u2019s driver, identified as 40-year-old Bryan Eric Christian, was arrested and booked into the Seminole County Jail on a charge of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.<\/p>\n Orlando Avenue shut down for hours <\/p>\n Orlando Avenue was shut down in both directions from Gene Street to Minnesota for hours as crews worked to clear the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n Morning commuters had to use alternate routes to get around the roadblock.\u00a0<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Police have not identified the motorcyclist who was killed in the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n Police said additional charges could be filed as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written with information released by the Winter Park Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n Winter Park<\/a>Orange County News<\/a>Traffic<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Winter Park police investigate crash on Orlando Avenue.\u00a0 WINTER PARK, Fla. – A motorcyclist was killed early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47,115,1335,139,141,140,729,628,4567],"class_list":["post-422347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-traffic","tag-us","tag-winter-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422347","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=422347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/wofl-bryan-eric-christian.jpg\")
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