{"id":212868,"date":"2026-03-31T11:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212868\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:14:07","slug":"driver-burned-on-over-15-of-body-after-car-crash-fire-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212868\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver burned on over 15% of body after car crash, fire in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 31, 2026 at 6:58 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/XDXJFYIDTBF3LI7XXDZZ7ZWQHY.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>(WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI  \u2014 A man was rushed to a hospital early Tuesday morning following a car crash and fire in Miami, first responders confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Miami Fire Rescue Lt. Pete Sanchez, the single-vehicle crash occurred at about 2:53 a.m. in the area of Northwest 14th Avenue and 54th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police confirmed that the driver struck a pole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sanchez said the vehicle then erupted in flames. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He said the 42-year-old male driver was able to get out of the vehicle himself before firefighters extinguished the flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim, who suffered burns on more than 15% of his body, was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital\u2019s Ryder Trauma Center in serious but stable condition, Sanchez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver\u2019s identity has not yet been released. It\u2019s unclear what caused him to crash into the pole.<\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 31, 2026 at 6:58 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(WPLG) MIAMI \u2014 A man was rushed to a hospital early Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-212868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212868","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=212868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}