{"id":202958,"date":"2026-03-23T21:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202958\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T21:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:11:11","slug":"miami-construction-worker-killed-after-20-foot-fall-from-overpass-fhp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202958\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami construction worker killed after 20-foot fall from overpass, FHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Miami Herald;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Miami Herald\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/92470c90-34ef-11eb-bd77-23f1e090d6ce.png\"\/><\/a>Mon, March 23, 2026 at 2:27 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bffb00a0fde1d7d4c403f069ae866458.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Biscayne Boulevard was closed for hours Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A construction worker in Miami was killed early Monday morning after falling from an overpass onto Biscayne Boulevard, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Few details have been released, but FHP told Miami Herald news partner CBS News Miami that just before 4 a.m., a construction worker, who was only identified as an adult male, fell about 20 feet from the overpass on Interstate 395 and landed on the street below.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said he died on the scene. The area was shut down for hours during the emergency and investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The FHP said that the incident is under investigation, and will likely be led by the National Transportation Safety Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mon, March 23, 2026 at 2:27 PM UTC Biscayne Boulevard was closed for hours Monday morning. A construction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6392,86918,1056,618,123,125,4541,124,3119,53068],"class_list":["post-202958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-biscayne-boulevard","tag-construction-worker","tag-fhp","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-herald","tag-miami-news","tag-national-transportation-safety-board","tag-overpass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202958","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=202958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}