{"id":384529,"date":"2026-08-29T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384529\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T13:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:30:17","slug":"1-dead-after-fiery-crash-in-southwest-miami-dade-first-responders-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384529\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead after fiery crash in southwest Miami-Dade, first responders say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 29, 2026 at 8:27 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 29, 2026 at 9:29 AM<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials confirmed that at least one person has died after a vehicle erupted in flames in southwest Miami-Dade on Saturday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A fiery crash involving a pickup truck and a flatbed semi-truck left a man dead and shut down a portion of U.S. 1 in southwest Miami-Dade on Saturday morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FHP officials said the crash happened at approximately 6:37 a.m. at the intersection of U.S. 1 and Southwest 184th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said a Dodge pickup truck collided with a flatbed semi-truck, igniting a small fire in the Dodge\u2019s engine compartment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver of the Dodge, a man who has not yet been identified, died at the scene, according to troopers. They said the driver of the semi-truck was not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">U.S. 1 is currently closed between Southwest 183rd Street and Southwest 186th Street as authorities investigate the crash.<\/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=\"Isabella Martin\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/09e8bd89-5433-45a7-b775-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Isabella Martin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Isabella Martin joined the reporting team at WPLG in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 29, 2026 at 8:27 AM Updated:\u00a0August 29, 2026 at 9:29 AM Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials confirmed that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-384529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384529","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=384529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}