‘None of us are safe’: Avid runner dies 2 years after Miramar hit-and-run
A woman who was critically injured in a hit-and-run accident on Miramar Parkway two years ago has died, and her husband says that more than ever, he wants justice for his wife, who never recovered from her severe head injuries.
“Someone knows something, and they should come forward,” Roosevelt Delinois told the Miramar News on Monday, April 13. “If someone can get away with something like this, running over a woman out on her morning jog, none of us are safe.”
A $15,000 reward is being offered for information about who struck Onyxia Delinois.
At 6:55 a.m. on April 6, 2024, Onyxia Delinois, 28, a successful Sunrise insurance broker who owned her own agency, was out with her running club, jogging east on Miramar Parkway near 184th Avenue, police said.
Roosevelt Delinois said his wife, who served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, ran with the group most weekends.
As she ran ahead of the others, she was struck from behind by an unknown vehicle that failed to stop and render aid, police said. Onyxia Delinois suffered severe head injuries that left her in a vegetative state and required around-the-clock care.
“She spent the first six months in the hospital and doctors told me she would never be the same, but I brought her home to give her a chance at getting better,” Roosevelt Delinois said.
A GoFundMe fundraiser collected 536 donors who gave over $42,000 to help pay for her long-term care.
Roosevelt Delinois believes his wife improved only slightly: “She grew more attentive, but that was it.”
He said his wife died April 3 of complications from her condition. Funeral services were private.
Roosevelt Delinois, who served as her primary caretaker during the year and a half she remained at home with the help of nurses, is urging anyone with information to come forward.
Police have little to go on. Vision was low in the pre-dawn hours. There was no traffic video of the crash because sensors were used to monitor that stretch of road rather than cameras. Other runners with her failed to see the accident or the make of the car.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.
