{"id":321758,"date":"2026-06-27T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/321758\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:06:10","slug":"mdso-boy-5-killed-after-being-struck-by-pickup-truck-at-krome-motorcross-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/321758\/","title":{"rendered":"MDSO: Boy, 5, killed after being struck by pickup truck at Krome Motorcross Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 27, 2026 at 6:29 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0June 27, 2026 at 7:48 AM<\/p>\n<p> A 5-year-old boy was killed Friday night after he was struck by a driver in a pickup truck while riding a bicycle in northwest Miami-Dade, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A 5-year-old boy was killed Friday night after he was struck by a driver in a pickup truck while riding a bicycle in northwest Miami-Dade, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said the crash happened around 9:13 p.m. at Krome Motocross Park, located in the 16000 block of Northwest 177th Avenue, just off Krome Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to investigators, deputies responded to reports of a traffic crash involving a child on a bicycle. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue pronounced the boy dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The preliminary investigation found the boy was riding his bicycle between parked vehicles and crossed into the path of a Chevrolet Silverado that was exiting the property before he was struck, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The boy and driver\u2019s identity have not been released at this time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said MDSO\u2019s Traffic Homicide Unit is investigating the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Krome Motorcross Park confirmed on social media that a race scheduled at the park for this weekend has been canceled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cRace weekend canceled due to extremely unfortunate circumstances. We have made the decision to cancel this weekend\u2019s race,\u201d the statement read. \u201cWe sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding during this time. We will keep everyone updated as we have more information. Thank you for your continued support, and we hope to see you all very soon.\u201d<\/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<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Linnie Supall\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/CANLLYSXDJBXDMDOXMBEIDTX.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Linnie Supall<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Linnie Supall is an Emmy nominated and award-winning journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 27, 2026 at 6:29 AM Updated:\u00a0June 27, 2026 at 7:48 AM A 5-year-old boy was killed Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-321758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321758","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=321758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}