{"id":102786,"date":"2026-01-02T01:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/102786\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:39:08","slug":"video-shows-truck-barreling-out-of-control-slamming-into-south-florida-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/102786\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows truck barreling out of control, slamming into South Florida home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/south-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">South Florida<\/a> family is without a place to stay after a truck went out of control and slammed into their home, leaving a massive hole in one of the walls on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/margate-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Margate police<\/a> said officers and members of the Margate Fire Department responded to reports of the crash in the area of Northwest 66th Avenue and 8th Court on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Miami spoke with the homeowner who said her family was insider the building when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were all in the living room having a lazy day, and the house shook,&#8221; Jodi Fountain-Spilotras said. &#8220;Nobody knew what was happening. I was there with my wife, and my two little kids. And everything just shook.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said that after the incident occurred, she grabbed her children and fled the home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You could smell the gas,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was so bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials said no injuries were reported, but the truck did hit a gas line after it hit the home.<\/p>\n<p>Video shows the moment of impact<\/p>\n<p>Ring video showed the moment the truck was barreling towards the home on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The truck is seen driving down the street before it suddenly turns and slams into the side of the home.<\/p>\n<p>The homeowner told CBS News Miami that the home has since been condemned. They will now need to find another place to stay until repairs are made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Florida family is without a place to stay after a truck went out of control and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[506,28,30,29,2925,807],"class_list":["post-102786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-broward-county","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-margate-police","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102786","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=102786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}