{"id":404667,"date":"2026-09-19T15:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/404667\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:08:27","slug":"boy-8-rushed-to-hospital-after-being-struck-by-car-in-fort-lauderdale-first-responders-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/404667\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 8, rushed to hospital after being struck by car in Fort Lauderdale, first responders say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 19, 2026 at 11:06 AM<\/p>\n<p>A child was struck by a vehicle Saturday in Fort Lauderdale and transported to a Broward County hospital as a trauma alert, according to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue officials.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 An 8-year-old boy was struck by a car Saturday in Fort Lauderdale and transported to a nearby hospital as a trauma alert, according to Fort Lauderdale police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/19\/trasladan-a-nino-al-hospital-tras-ser-atropellado-por-vehiculo-en-fort-lauderdale-informan-socorristas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/19\/trasladan-a-nino-al-hospital-tras-ser-atropellado-por-vehiculo-en-fort-lauderdale-informan-socorristas\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the crash was reported in the 500 block of Southwest 27th Avenue. They said the child was transported by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue medics to Broward Health Medical Center for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said they located the driver, and no arrests have been made at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said the northbound and southbound lanes in the 500 block of Southwest 27th Avenue were closed due to the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities had not immediately released the child\u2019s condition or additional details about how the crash occurred.<\/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=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/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:\u00a0September 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM Updated:\u00a0September 19, 2026 at 11:06 AM A child was struck by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-404667","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\/404667","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=404667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}