FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 Fort Pierce police are investigating a hit-and-run crash that injured two children who were crossing a street in a marked crosswalk.<\/p>\n
The crash happened at North 25th Street and Avenue M, where an early-2000s gold Mercedes-Benz was turning from Avenue M onto North 25th Street when it struck the children, police said.<\/p>\n
The driver initially stopped and checked on the children before fleeing the scene. The driver is described as a Black male between 20 and 30 years old, according to police. The car is described as a gold Mercedes-Benz with a tan interior, no window tint and damage to the driver’s side.<\/p>\n
Police said one child was transported to a local hospital and later flown to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, where they were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains active. <\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding the vehicle or driver is asked to contact the Fort Pierce Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 Fort Pierce police are investigating a hit-and-run crash that injured two children who were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-363587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363587","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=363587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}