{"id":309458,"date":"2026-06-16T18:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/309458\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T18:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:17:54","slug":"boy-5-struck-by-car-in-lauderhill-suffers-minor-injuries-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/309458\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 5, struck by car in Lauderhill suffers minor injuries, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 13, 2026 at 7:50 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0June 13, 2026 at 10:13 AM<\/p>\n<p>A 5-year-old boy was taken to a hospital with minor injuries after being struck by a sedan in Lauderhill on Friday night, police confirmed.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LAUDERHILL, Fla.  \u2014 A 5-year-old boy was taken to a hospital with minor injuries after being struck by a driver in a sedan in Lauderhill on Friday night, police confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/13\/atropellan-a-nino-de-5-anos-en-lauderhill-sufre-heridas-leves-dice-la-policia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/13\/atropellan-a-nino-de-5-anos-en-lauderhill-sufre-heridas-leves-dice-la-policia\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Lauderhill Police Sgt. Parys Thomas, officers responded to the crash and found the boy had been hit by a vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the boy was transported to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said the driver remained at the scene and the boy\u2019s parents were present at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thomas said the case is being investigated as a \u201cregular traffic accident\u201d and that there are no indications of any criminal wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No additional details about the circumstances of the crash were immediately available.<\/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=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 13, 2026 at 7:50 AM Updated:\u00a0June 13, 2026 at 10:13 AM A 5-year-old boy was taken to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-309458","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\/309458","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=309458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}