{"id":264322,"date":"2026-05-09T02:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264322\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T02:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:58:35","slug":"ft-lauderdale-police-investigate-hit-and-run-that-seriously-injured-pedestrian-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264322\/","title":{"rendered":"Ft. Lauderdale police investigate hit-and-run that seriously injured pedestrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Miami Herald;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Miami Herald\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2022-04\/2c007030-bc29-11ec-9eb3-6a75ebbbf0da.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Wed, May 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_miami_herald_mcclatchy_670\/5d4f2bfd57ac2af05fc186743d09e30f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Key West woman was struck and killed by a boat while she was scuba diving in the Florida Keys on Friday, May 8, 2026, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wed, May 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM UTC A Key West woman was struck and killed by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[53839,113258,249,251,250,6562],"class_list":["post-264322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-health-medical-center","tag-east-sunrise-boulevard","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-pedestrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264322","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=264322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}