{"id":215925,"date":"2026-04-02T11:27:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215925\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:27:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:27:47","slug":"4-year-old-girl-killed-in-apopka-driveway-crash-fhp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215925\/","title":{"rendered":"4-year-old girl killed in Apopka driveway crash, FHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA 4-year-old girl was killed after being struck by a vehicle in a driveway in Apopka on Wednesday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.Troopers said an SUV was parked in a private driveway when the driver, a 37-year-old woman from Apopka, began to pull forward.The driver was unaware that the child was standing near the vehicle&#8217;s right rear passenger door, according to FHP. As the vehicle moved eastbound, the child fell and was struck.The child was taken to a hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. Troopers said the driver was not injured and remained on scene. FHP said the incident remains under investigation.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tAPOPKA, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A 4-year-old girl was killed after being struck by a vehicle in a driveway in Apopka on Wednesday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said an SUV was parked in a private driveway when the driver, a 37-year-old woman from Apopka, began to pull forward.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was unaware that the child was standing near the vehicle&#8217;s right rear passenger door, according to FHP. As the vehicle moved eastbound, the child fell and was struck.<\/p>\n<p>The child was taken to a hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p>Troopers said the driver was not injured and remained on scene. <\/p>\n<p>FHP said the incident remains under investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 4-year-old girl was killed after being struck by a vehicle in a driveway in Apopka on Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[98452,10514,98451,2353,2675,51254,1056,618,7737,667,139,141,140,98453,725,8774,732,2486],"class_list":{"0":"post-215925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-37-year-old-woman","9":"tag-apopka","10":"tag-apopka-driveway-crash","11":"tag-child","12":"tag-driver","13":"tag-driveway","14":"tag-fhp","15":"tag-florida-highway-patrol","16":"tag-girl","17":"tag-investigation","18":"tag-orlando","19":"tag-orlando-headlines","20":"tag-orlando-news","21":"tag-right-rear-passenger-door","22":"tag-scene","23":"tag-trooper","24":"tag-vehicle","25":"tag-wednesday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215925","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=215925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}