{"id":254565,"date":"2026-05-01T21:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254565\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:52:07","slug":"rush-hour-traffic-is-blocked-on-a-highway-headed-to-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254565\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush-hour traffic is blocked on a highway headed to Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Off-ramp.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Vehicles are parked on the I-395 off-ramp to I-95 north in Miami on Friday afternoon, May 1, 2026.\" alt=\"Vehicles are parked on the I-395 off-ramp to I-95 north in Miami on Friday afternoon, May 1, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Vehicles are parked on the I-395 off-ramp to I-95 north in Miami on Friday afternoon, May 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>            FDOT traffic camera<\/p>\n<p>A body was found on an off-ramp of Interstate 395 to Interstate 95 on Friday afternoon, shutting down rush-hour traffic in the area, Miami police said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported around 4:20 p.m., according to the Florida Department of Transportation. The eastbound off-ramp to I-95 north was blocked by emergency vehicles, FDOT states on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Miami police spokesman Officer Michael Vega said the person died by suicide.<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is thinking about self-harm, call the toll-free National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988. It\u2019s available 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/profile.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of David Goodhue\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Goodhue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Before joining the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware.\u00a0\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vehicles are parked on the I-395 off-ramp to I-95 north in Miami on Friday afternoon, May 1, 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-254565","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\/254565","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=254565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}