{"id":410998,"date":"2026-09-26T04:28:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T04:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/410998\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T04:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T04:28:54","slug":"driver-seen-striking-elderly-womans-car-pepper-spraying-her-in-apparent-road-rage-arrested-on-battery-charges-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/410998\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver seen striking elderly woman\u2019s car, pepper spraying her in apparent road rage arrested on battery charges &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A driver accused of some bad behavior behind the wheel has been charged with battery on an elderly woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/surveillance-video-shows-driver-striking-elderly-womans-car-in-apparent-road-rage-incident-pepper-spraying-her\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/surveillance-video-shows-driver-striking-elderly-womans-car-in-apparent-road-rage-incident-pepper-spraying-her\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">7News obtained surveillance video<\/a> of the Sept. 14 incident that showed the man, identified as 22-year-old Ryan Leavy, striking a 73-year-old woman\u2019s car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities say after Leavy backed his Mercedes-Benz S Class into the woman\u2019s car, he pulled up next to her and pepper sprayed her through the driver\u2019s side window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 73-year-old retired nurse suffered minor injuries in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leavy now faces charges of battery on a person 65 or older.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.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 driver accused of some bad behavior behind the wheel has been charged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-410998","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\/410998","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=410998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}