{"id":314942,"date":"2026-06-21T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314942\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:06:11","slug":"drunken-driver-74-had-headlights-off-before-killing-1-in-stirling-road-crash-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314942\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunken driver, 74, had headlights off before killing 1 in Stirling Road crash, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 21, 2026 at 1:37 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DAVIE, Fla. \u2014 A 74-year-old drunken driver killed a person in a crash in Davie on June 11, leading to his arrest on Friday, according to the city\u2019s police department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The crash happened in the 8100 block of Stirling Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said the victim, whose name was not publicly released, was trying to make a left turn into the Home Depot at University Creek Plaza when Joseph Anthony Ciavarella hit him or her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Davie police said its investigators determined that Ciavarella was intoxicated and driving without his headlights at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said they obtained an arrest warrant and took Ciavarella into custody on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He faces several charges, including DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide.<\/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=\"Chris Gothner\" 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\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 21, 2026 at 1:37 PM DAVIE, Fla. \u2014 A 74-year-old drunken driver killed a person in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-314942","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\/314942","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=314942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}