{"id":333060,"date":"2026-07-08T13:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333060\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T13:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:11:38","slug":"young-boy-dies-after-a-car-hit-him-in-broward-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333060\/","title":{"rendered":"Young boy dies after a car hit him in Broward County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783516296_549_police.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A 2-year-old boy died Monday afternoon after he was hit by a car in Broward County\" alt=\"A 2-year-old boy died Monday afternoon after he was hit by a car in Broward County\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A 2-year-old boy died Monday afternoon after he was hit by a car in Broward County<\/p>\n<p>            Miami Herald File<\/p>\n<p>A 2-year-old boy was fatally struck by a vehicle Monday afternoon in Broward County, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was hit in a residential neighborhood near the 100 block of Allen Road in West Park, a city just north of Miami Gardens, a Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office news release said.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>The driver stayed at the scene, BSO officials said, and traffic homicide detectives are investigating. BSO didn\u2019t release names.<\/p>\n<p>This breaking story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/315974182\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lowery_headshot.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Kairi Lowery\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/315974182\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kairi Lowery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Kairi Lowery is a 2026 journalism graduate of the University of Florida and currently a breaking news intern at the Miami Herald. Previously, she worked as a political reporting intern for the Orlando Sentinel.\u00a0\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 2-year-old boy died Monday afternoon after he was hit by a car in Broward County Miami Herald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-333060","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\/333060","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=333060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}