{"id":282897,"date":"2026-05-24T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282897\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:24:11","slug":"florida-toddler-killed-on-memorial-day-weekend-after-being-struck-by-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282897\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida toddler killed on Memorial Day weekend after being struck by car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 A toddler was killed on a Florida beach after running into a traffic lane and being struck by a vehicle Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/3-year-old-gains-access-to-gun-shoots-man-in-delray-beach-home-delray-beach-florida-police-investigation-3-year-old-shooting-unsecured-firearm-accidental-shooting-child-firearm-access-gun-safety-delray-beach-police-department-udel-lane-resident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3-year-old gains access to gun, shoots man in Delray Beach home <\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the Volusia County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, the incident happened at around 4:30 p.m. near E. Seventh Avenue at New Smyrna Beach. The two-year-old girl was taken to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The driver remained at the scene. Impairment or speed do not appear to have been factors in the crash, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A toddler was killed on a Florida beach after running into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-282897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282897","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=282897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}