{"id":206748,"date":"2026-03-26T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206748\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:55:07","slug":"father-killed-son-injured-in-biscayne-bay-boating-hit-and-run-investigators-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206748\/","title":{"rendered":"Father killed, son injured in Biscayne Bay boating hit-and-run, investigators say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A father was killed and his son was injured when a dinghy they were on was struck by a boat in Biscayne Bay near Miami Beach on Wednesday night, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).<\/p>\n<p>According to the FWC, officers responded to reports of the boating incident around 8:30 p.m. in the Meloy Channel, near Indian Creek and Biscayne Pointe.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary investigation showed that a father and his son were aboard the 7-foot dinghy when it was struck by a boat, ejecting them into the water.<\/p>\n<p>They were located and recovered by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, and both were rushed to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The father, who has not yet been identified, later died. His son remains in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The boat that hit the victims was described as a dark blue, approximately 20-30 feet in length and had two outboard motors, according to the FWC.<\/p>\n<p>It was last seen heading north in the Meloy Channel in Biscayne Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or anyone who may have video footage or other information should call the Wildlife Alert Hotline at 1-888-404-FWCC (3922).<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father was killed and his son was injured when a dinghy they were on was struck by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,1642,125,124,1064,17216,807],"class_list":["post-206748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-beach","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-miami-dade-fire-rescue","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206748","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=206748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}