{"id":249594,"date":"2026-04-28T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249594\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:28:08","slug":"child-hit-by-car-attempting-to-bypass-slow-moving-traffic-in-miami-gardens-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249594\/","title":{"rendered":"Child hit by car attempting to bypass slow-moving traffic in Miami Gardens, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Gardens police said they have arrested a driver accused of hitting a child while trying to avoid slow-moving traffic on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, officers responded to reports of a crash just before 8 a.m. in the 1200 block of northwest 188th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver of the black Ford Fusion was headed south on northwest 12th Avenue at a high rate of speed near northwest 188th Street when the driver tried to bypass slow-moving traffic by driving on the swale.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle then hit a tree and subsequently hit an 11-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>That child was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center with a head injury.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who hasn&#8217;t been identified, was taken into custody and was expected to face charges of reckless driving.<\/p>\n<p>No other information was released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Gardens police said they have arrested a driver accused of hitting a child while trying to avoid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,2431,23276,125,124,1064,17216,807],"class_list":["post-249594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-gardens","tag-miami-gardens-police","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","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\/249594","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=249594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}