{"id":249693,"date":"2026-04-28T14:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249693\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:41:17","slug":"driver-arrested-after-driving-on-swale-to-bypass-traffic-striking-11-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249693\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested after driving on swale to bypass traffic, striking 11-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 28, 2026 at 9:08 AM<\/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\/YSYPM74ZYODA4W32X752GQA27Y.png\"  width=\"1908\" height=\"1073\"\/>Copyright 2020 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.  \u2014 A driver was arrested Tuesday morning after striking an 11-year-old in Miami Gardens, sending the child to the hospital with serious head injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/28\/miami-gardens-pd-arrestan-a-conductor-tras-conducir-sobre-area-verde-para-evadir-trafico-y-atropellar-a-menor-de-11-anos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/28\/miami-gardens-pd-arrestan-a-conductor-tras-conducir-sobre-area-verde-para-evadir-trafico-y-atropellar-a-menor-de-11-anos\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Miami Gardens police, the crash was reported at 7:53 a.m. in the 1200 block of Northwest 188th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the driver of a black Ford Fusion was heading south on Northwest 12th Avenue at a high rate of speed when they tried to bypass slow-moving traffic by driving onto the swale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver then crashed the car into a tree and then struck the child, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police confirmed that the driver was arrested on reckless driving charges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials, meanwhile, airlifted the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital\u2019s Ryder Trauma Center with serious but stable head injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The identities of the suspect and victim have not yet been released.<\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" 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\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 28, 2026 at 9:08 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandCopyright 2020 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-249693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249693","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=249693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}