{"id":423471,"date":"2026-10-09T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423471\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:14:10","slug":"2-hospitalized-after-elderly-driver-hits-car-in-miami-beach-causing-it-to-burst-into-flames-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423471\/","title":{"rendered":"2 hospitalized after elderly driver hits car in Miami Beach, causing it to burst into flames &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Rescue crews put out a car fire in Miami Beach following a crash that sent two people to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miami Beach Police and Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the fiery wreck in the area of 67th Street and Indian Creek Drive, just after 8:30 a.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators said an elderly driver veered into oncoming traffic and struck another vehicle, causing it to burst into flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cellphone video captured firefighters as they knocked down the flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paramedics transported the victims to an area hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morning traffic was impacted as first responders worked to put out the flames and clear the scene.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.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":"MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Rescue crews put out a car fire in Miami Beach following a crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-423471","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\/423471","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=423471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}