{"id":356827,"date":"2026-07-29T22:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356827\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T22:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:39:41","slug":"woman-flees-hollywood-police-with-child-in-car-crashes-head-on-into-cruiser-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356827\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman flees Hollywood police with child in car, crashes head-on into cruiser, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 29, 2026 at 6:12 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla.  \u2014 A woman was arrested in Hollywood after allegedly fleeing from officers who were trying to check on her welfare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, officers responded to Convenience World, located at 3038 Johnson St., on Sunday night after receiving reports of a woman in the drive-thru who appeared to have fainted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers arrived to find Julia Pilkington, 35, inside a black Jeep Grand Cherokee \u201cin actual physical control of the vehicle,\u201d that also included a young child in a car seat in the back row of the Jeep, according to official documents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Pilkington, who was conscious and breathing, would not cooperate despite officers telling her they were only there to check on her wellbeing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When an officer attempted to reach inside the vehicle and unlock the doors, police said Pilkington put the Jeep into drive and took off at a high rate of speed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to authorities, Pilkington drove westbound in the eastbound lanes of Johnson Street, going through a construction zone before moving \u201cinto the lane of oncoming traffic, failing to maintain control of her vehicle resulting in a head-on collision\u201d with a responding officer in a marked police cruiser. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She was then taken into custody and is facing charges of child neglect without great bodily harm, resisting an officer without violence and reckless driving. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/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=\"David Dwork\" 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\/3469fa6e-3c52-46d2-a0.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>David Dwork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019. Born and raised in Miami-Dade County, David has covered South Florida sports since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 29, 2026 at 6:12 PM HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 A woman was arrested in Hollywood after allegedly fleeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-356827","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\/356827","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=356827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}