{"id":283074,"date":"2026-05-24T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283074\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:00:08","slug":"fatal-overnight-crash-in-little-havana-leaves-driver-dead-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283074\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal overnight crash in Little Havana leaves driver dead \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire rescue crews, police cars, and two medical examiner vans lined the street for hours\u00a0Sunday morning\u00a0after this violent overnight crash in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the crash happened around 2:46 a.m. near 301 SW 10th Ave, in the Little Havana neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon officers\u2019 arrival, it appeared that an SUV may have been traveling at a high rate of speed moments before the crash,\u201d police said, adding that the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Paulette, a witness, said that when she walked outside, the aftermath was devastating.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeighbors describe rushing to the scene.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Several cars were badly damaged, and neighbors gathered near the wreckage trying to help anyone trapped inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just sounded like you hear screeching tires and a loud bang and then a couple of minutes later the police come here to the door banging,\u201d Paulette said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also confirmed that the driver of a second vehicle died as a result of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Cell phone video shared with NBC6 shows people crowding around one of the wrecked cars moments after the crash happened.<\/p>\n<p>One witness, 21-year-old nursing student Layla Montgomery, says she tried checking for signs of life before first responders arrived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw like four cars beat up, and we didn\u2019t know at first if there was somebody in the car. We tried to see if he had a pulse, and unfortunately, he did not,\u201d Montgomery shared.<\/p>\n<p>The scene stretched on for hours as investigators documented the damage and tow trucks worked to remove the wrecked vehicles from the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was pretty scary because it was loud, and then just to see how it ended,\u201d Paulette added.<\/p>\n<p>As the investigation continues, neighbors here say they&#8217;re still shaken by what they witnessed overnight<\/p>\n<p>The investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to NBC6 for updates on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire rescue crews, police cars, and two medical examiner vans lined the street for hours\u00a0Sunday morning\u00a0after this violent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28,15403,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-283074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-florida","tag-little-havana","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283074","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=283074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}