{"id":392165,"date":"2026-09-06T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T14:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392165\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T14:06:08","slug":"miami-police-motorman-hospitalized-after-crash-on-turnpike-in-sw-miami-dade-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392165\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Police motorman hospitalized after crash on Turnpike in SW Miami-Dade &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A City of Miami Police motorcycle officer was rushed to the hospital after a crash on the Florida Turnpike in Southwest Miami-Dade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crash happened early Saturday morning on the southbound lane near the Bird Road exit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7News cameras captured the officer being taken into HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, and Miami Police officials said that he sustained possible arm and leg fractures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traffic cameras captured a large multi-agency response with cars backed up on the roadway, with Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, and Florida Highway Patrol vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7News cameras captured the officer\u2019s motorcycle laying on the highway, surrounded by debris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBe advised, this is a City of Miami officer,\u201d was heard over the Broadcastify police scanner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miami Police officials said that the officer was headed home when he was involved in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crash comes after a previous <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/fiu-motorman-hospitalized-after-crash-in-nw-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">incident which involved a Florida International University motorman<\/a> near US 27 and Frontage Road in Northwest Miami-Dade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FIU motorman was taken to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, and sustained minor injuries in the crash, according to Florida Highway Patrol troopers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crash which involved the City of Miami motorman is currently under investigation, but the officer is expected to be OK. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A City of Miami Police motorcycle officer was rushed to the hospital after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-392165","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\/392165","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=392165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}