{"id":349709,"date":"2026-07-23T10:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349709\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:41:26","slug":"margate-police-investigate-suspected-fatal-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349709\/","title":{"rendered":"Margate police investigate suspected fatal hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Margate are investigating a suspected hit-and-run that left one person dead early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Few details have been released, but the incident took place in the area of Atlantic Boulevard near State Road 7 and Lakewood Circle.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cbsmiami-margate-fatal-hit-and-run-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"cbsmiami-margate-fatal-hit-and-run-1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Police in Margate are investigating a suspected hit-and-run that left one person dead early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The area was shut down for the investigation, and traffic headed east on Atlantic Boulevard had been directed into Lakewood Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>A witness told CBS News Miami that she saw a blue truck hit a man who was in the street and kept driving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, I don&#8217;t know why you wouldn&#8217;t stop,&#8221; the witness said. &#8220;He wasn&#8217;t in the wrong. The guy was in the wrong. He stood in front of the, walking in the middle of the street. So, now he&#8217;s in trouble.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Investigators cleared the scene just before 6:30 a.m., and the road was reopened shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>No other details were released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Margate are investigating a suspected hit-and-run that left one person dead early Thursday morning. Few details&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[506,5154,2925,123,125,124,807],"class_list":["post-349709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-broward-county","tag-hit-and-run","tag-margate-police","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349709","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=349709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}