{"id":109117,"date":"2026-01-07T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/109117\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:08:07","slug":"2-officers-hit-by-suv-on-dolphin-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/109117\/","title":{"rendered":"2 officers hit by SUV on Dolphin Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 7, 2026 at 9:48 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0January 7, 2026 at 10:07 AM<\/p>\n<p>4 Miami police officers struck by SUV on Dolphin Expressway  Four Miami police motormen were struck by an SUV Wednesday morning on the Dolphin Expressway, authorities confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Two Miami police motormen were hurt Wednesday morning on the Dolphin Expressway, Miami police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The crash occurred in the eastbound lanes near Northwest 42nd Avenue. Officers responded after reports that an SUV had struck multiple motormen who were working on or near the roadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Miami Police Officer Mike Vega, only two motormen were hurt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vega said the injured motormen are expected to be OK and may have suffered possible leg and arm injuries. Two additional motormen were positioned behind them and were not hurt in the crash. <\/p>\n<p>SKY 10 LIVE over Dolphin Expressway where 4 Miami PD motormen were struck by SUV <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami police said a black SUV was believed to be involved; however, investigators are still determining whether the vehicle at the scene was connected to the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sky 10 flew over the area as police diverted traffic away from the scene. Traffic was heavily impacted while authorities conducted their investigation. Miami police confirmed that three eastbound lanes of the Dolphin Expressway were closed between Northwest 42nd and 57th avenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Details about how the crash happened were not immediately available, and the exact circumstances remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is a developing story. Watch Local 10 News or refresh the page for the latest information. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Editor\u2019s note: An MPD spokesperson initially reported that four of the agency\u2019s motormen were involved in the crash but later confirmed that only two were injured.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 7, 2026 at 9:48 AM Updated:\u00a0January 7, 2026 at 10:07 AM 4 Miami police officers struck by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[749,5526,5531,5529,5528,123,125,124,5530,5532,5527],"class_list":{"0":"post-109117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breaking-news-video","10":"tag-live-speeches","11":"tag-live-updates","12":"tag-live-video","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-miami-headlines","15":"tag-miami-news","16":"tag-press-conference","17":"tag-real-time-coverage","18":"tag-video-updates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109117","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=109117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}