{"id":346063,"date":"2026-07-20T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346063\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:57:10","slug":"public-bus-crashes-into-building-prompting-evacuation-and-street-closures-in-miami-beach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346063\/","title":{"rendered":"Public bus crashes into building, prompting evacuation and street closures in Miami Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 20, 2026 at 10:15 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 20, 2026 at 10:34 AM<\/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\/1784559430_623_MNCYLPMQRBDJ3HGCCSZWX6THY4.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>Crews respond to repair gas pipes after a bush crashed on Monday in Miami Beach, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 A public bus crashed into a building, damaged pipes, and caused a gas leak that prompted street closures and evacuations on Monday morning in Miami Beach, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami Beach fire rescue personnel took two people who suffered respiratory difficulties after the gas leak to the Mount Sinai Medical Center, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami Beach police officers reported responding shortly after 4:10 a.m. to the 8600 block of Harding Avenue after the Miami-Dade transit bus crashed at 315 86 Street in North Beach, near Surfside. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police officers and fire rescue personnel evacuated residents and closed Harding Avenue and Collins Court in both directions from 85th to 88th streets and Byron Avenue\u2019s westbound lanes, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is a developing story. Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Traffic Alert: All NB &amp; SB lanes along Harding Ave and Collins Ct between 85-88 Streets, as well as WB lanes on 86 St &amp; Byron Ave are closed due to an accident. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tAnh7mfUbx\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/tAnh7mfUbx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miami Beach Police (@MiamiBeachPD) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MiamiBeachPD\/status\/2079173241508175995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Location<\/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<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 20, 2026 at 10:15 AM Updated:\u00a0July 20, 2026 at 10:34 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandCrews respond to repair gas pipes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-346063","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\/346063","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=346063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}