{"id":434836,"date":"2026-10-22T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434836\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:40:08","slug":"orlando-motorcyclist-killed-after-hitting-deer-in-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434836\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando motorcyclist killed after hitting deer in Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/news-team\/e7bde123-d3e0-4384-807b-b9f060165f84\" aria-label=\"Meaghan Mackey profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/rover\/profile_photos\/e7bde123-d3e0-4384-807b-b9f060165f84_1776280999.file?resize=100:*\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Meaghan Mackey\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A man riding a motorcycle was killed after hitting a deer Wednesday night in Orange County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The crash happened just after 9 p.m. on Lake Pickett Road near Tanner Road.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Troopers said the 57-year-old man from Orlando was riding a 2016 Harley-Davidson Street Glide westbound on Lake Pickett Road ahead of a 2025 Tesla Model Y driven by a 53-year-old woman.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Troopers say as the motorcycle and Tesla approached Tanner Road, a deer crossed the road and the motorcyclist ran into it.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The impact threw the man from his bike, and then the Tesla ran over the rider, FHP says.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The motorcyclist was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">The Tesla driver was not injured and stayed at the scene. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A man riding a motorcycle was killed after hitting a deer Wednesday night in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[50335,1056,170355,154680,2391,1737,4228,1335,139,141,170354,140,2451,60723,170353,3395,8774,918,192],"class_list":["post-434836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-deer","tag-fhp","tag-harley-davidson-street-glide","tag-lake-pickett-road","tag-man","tag-motorcycle","tag-motorcycle-crash","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-motorcyclist","tag-orlando-news","tag-p-m","tag-rider","tag-tanner-road","tag-tesla","tag-trooper","tag-wesh","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434836","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=434836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}