{"id":234924,"date":"2026-04-16T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234924\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:30:15","slug":"box-truck-driver-runs-over-kills-woman-crossing-street-in-miami-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234924\/","title":{"rendered":"Box truck driver runs over, kills woman crossing street in Miami Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 The driver of a box truck struck and killed a woman crossing the street in Miami Beach on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Miami Beach police, the crash happened at around 1:27 p.m. at West 41st Street and Royal Palm Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the woman was in the crosswalk as the box truck driver hit her while turning left onto 41st Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Surveillance video shows bystanders rushing to her aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said medics responded and \u201cimmediately initiated life-saving measures,\u201d but the woman died after being taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital\u2019s Ryder Trauma Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said the investigation into the crash \u201cremains ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They have not identified the victim or driver involved or stated whether the driver would be criminally charged.<\/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 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 The driver of a box truck struck and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-234924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-miami","9":"tag-miami-headlines","10":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234924","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=234924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}