{"id":272338,"date":"2026-05-15T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272338\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:17:09","slug":"driver-killed-in-crash-involving-flatbed-truck-box-truck-on-okeechobee-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272338\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed in crash involving flatbed truck, box truck on Okeechobee Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 15, 2026 at 8:39 AM<\/p>\n<p>A driver died Friday morning in a crash on Okeechobee Road in Miami-Dade County, the Florida Highway Patrol confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla.  \u2014 A driver died Friday morning in a crash on Okeechobee Road in Hialeah, the Florida Highway Patrol confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/15\/muere-conductor-en-choque-entre-camion-de-plataforma-y-camion-de-carga-en-okeechobee-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/15\/muere-conductor-en-choque-entre-camion-de-plataforma-y-camion-de-carga-en-okeechobee-road\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to FHP Lt. Alex Camacho, the crash between the flatbed truck and a box truck occurred in the southbound lanes of Okeechobee Road, at the intersection with Krome Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Camacho said the box truck was stopped at a red light when a yellow flatbed truck crashed into the back of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver of the flatbed truck was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other driver was not injured, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two southbound lanes on Okeechobee Rd were closed after the collision. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The identities of those involved in the crash were not immediately 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\/05\/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:\u00a0May 15, 2026 at 8:39 AM A driver died Friday morning in a crash on Okeechobee Road in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-272338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272338","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=272338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}