{"id":230190,"date":"2026-04-13T19:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230190\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:47:08","slug":"man-19-accused-of-seriously-injuring-motorcyclist-in-hit-and-run-near-florida-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230190\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 19, accused of seriously injuring motorcyclist in hit-and-run near Florida City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM<\/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\/04\/A47JDGFSKRGPDERUC5U536OOAA.jpg\"  width=\"720\" height=\"405\"\/>Photo Rodrigo Rivas (MDCR) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A southwest Miami-Dade man is facing a felony charge after state troopers said he seriously injured a motorcyclist in a hit-and-run crash just outside of Florida City Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said the crash happened just before 9 p.m. in the area of Southwest 192nd Avenue and 349th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Rodrigo Rivas, 19, hit the motorcyclist and took off. Medics took the victim to Jackson South Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said Florida City police put out a be-on-the-lookout notice for the a suspect\u2019s vehicle and a Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office detective later saw a Chevrolet Malibu \u201ctraveling on a rim,\u201d then found the sedan pulled over on Southwest 195th Avenue and 340th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Florida Highway Patrol arrest report states that Rivas flagged the detective down, \u201cconfessed that he was involved in a car crash\u201d and said \u201che thought he hit someone and did not know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The MDSO detective, troopers said, \u201cinspected the vehicle for damage and observed front right-side damage, along with what appeared to be evidence of blood and tissue, which was consistent with a car collision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A state trooper took Rivas into custody just after midnight on Saturday on a charge of leaving the scene of a crash causing serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The FHP arrest report lists no indication of drug or alcohol use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Additional details about the motorcyclist weren\u2019t immediately available on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rivas no longer appeared in Miami-Dade jail records as of Monday afternoon.<\/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=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandPhoto Rodrigo Rivas (MDCR) MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A southwest Miami-Dade man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-230190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230190","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=230190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}