{"id":420201,"date":"2026-10-06T13:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420201\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T13:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:16:11","slug":"pedestrian-killed-after-being-struck-by-truck-on-sw-8th-street-in-tamiami-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420201\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed after being struck by truck on SW 8th Street in Tamiami \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway in Tamiami Tuesday morning after a pedestrian was fatally struck by a pickup truck, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol said it happened in the westbound lanes of Southwest 8th Street just east of Southwest 137th Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>According to FHP,  the pickup truck was traveling west on Southwest 8th Street when it collided with the pedestrian who was walking on the roadway. <\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian died at the scene, while the truck remained. <\/p>\n<p>Video shows FHP vehicles blocking off the roadway as the body of a victim is covered by a yellow tarp. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DEADLY-CRASH-TAMIAMI-FHP.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"The Florida Highway Patrol said it happened in the westbound lanes of Southwest 8th Street just east of Southwest 137th Avenue. \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tNBC6NBC6<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol said it happened in the westbound lanes of Southwest 8th Street just east of Southwest 137th Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian&#8217;s identity was not released. <\/p>\n<p>No arrests were made. <\/p>\n<p>The deadly crash is blocking the westbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Refresh for updates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway in Tamiami Tuesday morning after a pedestrian was fatally struck by a pickup truck,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2336,2864,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-420201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-car-crash","tag-car-crashes","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420201","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=420201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}