{"id":61854,"date":"2025-11-26T19:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/61854\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:02:20","slug":"florida-toddler-dies-after-being-hit-by-jeep-in-walmart-parking-lot-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/61854\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida toddler dies after being hit by Jeep in Walmart parking lot: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">ENGLEWOOD, Fla. &#8211; A 3-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida<\/a> boy died hours after being struck by a vehicle in a Walmart parking lot on Tuesday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The crash happened around 8:25 p.m. at the store located at 2931 South McCall Road in Englewood.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Troopers say the toddler walked in front of a Jeep and stopped as his mother was placing an infant into their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/marijuana-amendment-effort-drops-appeal-signature-fight-enters-new-phase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marijuana amendment effort drops appeal as signature fight enters new phase<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the Jeep, driven by a 27-year-old woman, struck the child when it made a right turn.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The toddler was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information found in a press release from the Florida Highway Patrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENGLEWOOD, Fla. &#8211; A 3-year-old Florida boy died hours after being struck by a vehicle in a Walmart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-61854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61854","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=61854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}