{"id":260866,"date":"2026-05-06T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260866\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:26:08","slug":"fort-lauderdale-hit-and-run-seriously-injures-pedestrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260866\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale hit-and-run seriously injures pedestrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ambulance_final201.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A pedestrian sustained life-threatening injuries after a hit-and-run on East Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale on early Wednesday morning, May 6, 2026.\" alt=\"A pedestrian sustained life-threatening injuries after a hit-and-run on East Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale on early Wednesday morning, May 6, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A pedestrian sustained life-threatening injuries after a hit-and-run on East Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale on early Wednesday morning, May 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>            Getty Images | Royalty Free<\/p>\n<p>A pedestrian was seriously injured after being hit by a car in Fort Lauderdale early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>At around 1:30 a.m., the Fort Lauderdale Police Department responded to a possible hit-and-run in the 400 block of East Sunrise Boulevard. The pedestrian was taken to Broward Health Medical Center with \u201clife-threatening injuries\u201d by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The car that hit the pedestrian was found a short distance away but with no driver inside, police say. FLPD\u2019s Traffic Homicide Unit is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/288625454\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milena Malaver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Milena Malaver covers crime and breaking news for the Miami Herald. She was born and raised in Miami-Dade and is a graduate of Florida International University. She joined the Herald shortly after graduating.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian sustained life-threatening injuries after a hit-and-run on East Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale on early Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-260866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260866","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=260866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}