{"id":218815,"date":"2026-04-04T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218815\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:49:08","slug":"miami-dade-deputy-struck-while-blocking-a-fatal-crash-in-opa-locka-sheriffs-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218815\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade deputy struck while blocking a fatal crash in Opa-Locka, Sheriff&#8217;s Office says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-dade-sheriffs-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a> deputy was injured after being struck while blocking an intersection due to a fatal crash in Opa-Locka, deputies say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at approximately 2:44 a.m. Saturday at NW 135th Street and 47th Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday night, the Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office said a car had struck a tree and caught fire. The <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> extinguished the flames, and the driver of the car, only identified as a man of an unknown age, was pronounced dead on the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the deputy was blocking the intersection of that fiery crash, a different car struck the deputy&#8217;s car on the right side, causing damage to the vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The deputy had minor injuries and was treated on scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle was arrested, but it is unknown what charges the driver faces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation continues, so no word yet on the identities of the arrested driver, the deceased victim, or the deputy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputy was injured after being struck while blocking an intersection due to a fatal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2336,2337,123,125,124,1064,17216,40968],"class_list":{"0":"post-218815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-car-crash","9":"tag-fatal-crash","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news","13":"tag-miami-dade","14":"tag-miami-dade-fire-rescue","15":"tag-miami-dade-sheriff039s-office"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218815","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=218815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}