{"id":212920,"date":"2026-03-31T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212920\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:03:08","slug":"miami-driver-crawls-out-of-burning-car-after-crash-early-tuesday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212920\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami driver crawls out of burning car after crash early Tuesday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver was seriously injured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami<\/a> after officials said he escaped a car that burst into flames following a crash early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-dade-fire-rescue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami-Dade Fire Rescue<\/a> said crews responded to reports of a single-vehicle crash that may have hit a pole and caught fire in the area of northwest 14th Avenue and northwest 54th Street just before 3 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews were able to extinguish the blaze, and the man was rushed to Ryder Trauma with burns over 15% of his body.<\/p>\n<p>He was last listed in serious but stable condition, according to MDFR.<\/p>\n<p>One witness told CBS News Miami that he saw the man get out of the car as it was going up in flames, and his clothes were on fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You could see as his wheels were still moving, the flames were kind of coming along with the car,&#8221; witness Diego Gomez said. &#8220;It was weird. He was crawling out. You could see his clothes were already burning off his body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed in the area while the investigation continued, and drivers were urged to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances surrounding the crash is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami Police Department<\/a> investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was seriously injured in Miami after officials said he escaped a car that burst into flames&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[855,123,125,124,8166,1064,17216,807],"class_list":["post-212920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-fire","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-police","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\/212920","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=212920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}