{"id":331065,"date":"2026-07-06T20:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331065\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T20:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:13:22","slug":"broward-deputies-2-year-old-boy-dies-after-driver-struck-him-in-west-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331065\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward deputies: 2-year-old boy dies after driver struck him in West Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7QGCIX5H7NED7LZAUHF5CQ2IHY.png\"  width=\"1436\" height=\"807\"\/>A driver struck a toddler on Monday in West Park, according to Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WEST PARK, Fla.  \u2014 A 2-year-old boy died after a driver struck him on Monday afternoon in West Park, according to Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies. <\/p>\n<p>Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue personnel and BSO deputies responded after 2 p.m. to Southwest 56th Avenue and Allen Road, according to BSO. <\/p>\n<p>Fire rescue personnel took the child to Memorial Regional Hospital, according to BSFR Battalion Chief Michael B. Kane. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, he was pronounced deceased,\u201d Carey Codd, a BSO spokesman, wrote in a statement, adding that BSO\u2019s traffic homicide unit detectives were investigating the case. <\/p>\n<p>Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/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=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM Updated:\u00a0July 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandA driver struck a toddler on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-331065","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\/331065","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=331065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}