{"id":361413,"date":"2026-08-03T12:14:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361413\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:14:29","slug":"74-year-old-woman-critically-injured-in-miami-dade-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361413\/","title":{"rendered":"74-year-old woman critically injured in Miami-Dade hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/hit-and-run\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hit-and-run<\/a> crash in southwest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami-Dade<\/a> over the weekend left a 74-year-old woman on life support.<\/p>\n<p>Loved ones and neighbors said the victim, Geraldine Byrd, is in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged driver, Tomas Raymundo Brito, 31, now faces felony charges for leaving the scene of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/car-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">crash<\/a> with serious injuries and driving without a license.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cbsmiami-tomah-raymundo-brito-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"cbsmiami-tomah-raymundo-brito-1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Tomas Raymundo Brito<\/p>\n<p>                Miami-Dade Corrections<\/p>\n<p>Brito told investigators that he is from Guatemala and does not have lawful status in the United States, according to arrest records.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, Byrd stopped her car on Lincoln Drive near her home&#8217;s driveway early Sunday morning and got out of the vehicle to open the gate.<\/p>\n<p>As Byrd walked past the driver&#8217;s side door of her car, a black pickup truck crashed into the back of the car, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the collision spun the car clockwise, knocked Byrd down, and then the truck hit her, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>Brito got out with the truck still stopped on top of Byrd, according to investigators. That&#8217;s when investigators said Brito ran into a nearby shed.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/miami-dade-sheriffs-office\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a> eventually found and arrested Brito.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hit-and-run crash in southwest Miami-Dade over the weekend left a 74-year-old woman on life support. Loved ones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2336,5154,123,125,124,1064,807],"class_list":["post-361413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-car-crash","tag-hit-and-run","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361413","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=361413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}