{"id":351597,"date":"2026-07-24T21:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351597\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:38:07","slug":"woman-charged-in-deadly-wrong-way-crash-on-florida-turnpike-in-broward-sentenced-to-20-years-behind-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351597\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged in deadly wrong-way crash on Florida Turnpike in Broward sentenced to 20 years behind bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The woman accused of killing an aspiring Miami-Dade firefighter in a wrong-way crash on the Florida Turnpike in Miramar last year has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and 10 years of probation Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/video\/woman-charged-in-deadly-wrong-way-crash-in-miramar-that-killed-firefighter-1\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunshine Perez<\/a>, 45, plead guilty to DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide in the death of 23-year-old Zeke Urrutia, who was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/rollover-crash-on-northbound-turnpike-near-red-road-woman-hospitalized\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed in January 2025<\/a>\u00a0when Perez drove several miles in the wrong direction before crashing into his car.<\/p>\n<p>Urrutia was a lively young paramedic who hoped to become a firefighter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as soon as more information is available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman accused of killing an aspiring Miami-Dade firefighter in a wrong-way crash on the Florida Turnpike in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2336,2337,28,30,29,1064,24239,807],"class_list":["post-351597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-car-crash","tag-fatal-crash","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-miramar","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351597","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=351597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}