{"id":441860,"date":"2026-10-29T21:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/441860\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T21:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:28:55","slug":"van-hits-police-decoy-on-rickenbacker-causeway-key-biscayne-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/441860\/","title":{"rendered":"Van hits police decoy on Rickenbacker Causeway | Key Biscayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A white van crashed into an unoccupied Miami police decoy vehicle Thursday morning on the outbound side of the Rickenbacker Causeway, just beyond the William Powell Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>An accident Thursday morning outbound on the Rickenbacker Causeway after the William Powell Bridge involved a white van and a police cruiser, witnesses told Islander News.<\/p>\n<p>Video shot by\u00a0Islander News\u00a0staffer Mariella Oliva, shows the damaged van facing against the direction of traffic. The police vehicle sustained significant front-end damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crash involved a decoy police vehicle,\u201d Miami Police Department\u2019s Public Information Office told Islander News, adding that it was unoccupied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreliminary information suggests that the driver suffered from a medical-related episode which, ultimately, caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle and crash into the decoy PD vehicle,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not immediately provide information about the driver\u2019s condition or whether anyone else was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The police vehicle was unoccupied, and the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A white van crashed into an unoccupied Miami police decoy vehicle Thursday morning on the outbound side of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[85884,225,227,226,126,172289,172290,156954,8166,172288,172287,94312],"class_list":["post-441860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-city-of-miami-police","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-key-biscayne","tag-key-biscayne-traffic","tag-medical-episode","tag-miami-crash","tag-miami-police","tag-police-decoy-vehicle","tag-rickenbacker-causeway-crash","tag-william-powell-bridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441860","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=441860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}