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An autistic man was rushed to the hospital by ambulance on Christmas day after he was hit by a car in the Town-N-Country community. It was a crash that was caught on a neighbor’s surveillance camera. The man’s mother is now speaking out to ABC Action News reporter A W, telling him she believes the accident could have been avoided if speed bumps had been installed to slow down traffic. The man, M K, was taking out a J D

A mom reached out to ABC Action News, desperate for help finding the driver who left her son fighting for his life; what happened next led to police arresting a Lyft driver. On the morning after Thanksgiving, 24-year-old A C was riding his e-bike on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard by Myrtle Hill Memorial Park when Tampa police said he was hit by a hit-and-run driver. “Why did you leave him?” A S, C’s mother, said of the driver. “He’s

photo by: local10 Less than 24 hours after and a mile away from the scene of a quadruple shooting in southwest Miami-Dade’s Naranja area, another bout of gunfire wounded a man Thursday afternoon. According to Miami-Dade police, officers received a ShotSpotter alert of gunfire near 14340 SW 260th St. in the Princeton area just after 4:45 p.m. Thursday. Authorities said the victim drove to the 14000 block of Southwest 268th Street, just about two blocks away from where the Naranja shooting happened

A shooting Thursday afternoon in a Fort Lauderdale neighborhood left a 17-year-old boy and 18-year-old man injured, according to police. Fort Lauderdale police said officers responded to the 1200 block of Northwest Eighth Street, in the city’s Durrs neighborhood, just before 4:30 p.m. and found the two victims. Detective A A, an agency spokesperson, said officers provided “tactical medical care” before medics took the two teens to Broward Health Medical Center as trauma alert patients. “The suspect(s) fled the scene

A family in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood is trying to rebuild after a devastating house fire on Christmas Eve. Seventeen-year-old H M showed Local 10 News the memories on the family refrigerator, now covered with soot and warped by heat. “This is basically all destroyed,” she said. “All ashes.” Pictures and drawings are among the remnants after a fire tore through their home in the 2900 block of South Federal Highway. “It was fast, it was quick,” M said. At

A Miami-Dade Police officer was involved in a car crash that led to the closure of an intersection in Northwest Miami-Dade. Miami-Dade Police and Fire Rescue units responded to the area of Northwest 17th Avenue and 79th Street on Thursday afternoon. Dashcam video obtained by 7News shows an MDPD cruiser with their lights on trying to get through an intersection to a call about a person in distress when another driver who had a green light apparently didn’t see the

One person suffered minor injuries after a small plane hit some power lines and crashed in Melbourne Thursday evening. The crash happened at around 7 p.m. in a parking lot near the Renningers Flea and Farmers Market off Eau Gallie Boulevard. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, two people were on board the plane, which was a twin-engine Beechcraft 76. Based on the tail number on the plane, it was registered to a Melbourne flight school. A deputy fire chief for

UPDATE: South Ocean Boulevard has reopened following a traffic crash. Police said traffic is flowing. ORIGINAL: The Town of Palm Beach is alerting motorists to a vehicle crash that closed both lanes of traffic on South Ocean Boulevard on Thursday evening. As of around 6:30 p.m., both directions are closed near 2700 South Ocean Boulevard, near The Regency of Palm Beach. Few details were provided regarding the crash, but police and fire rescue teams are on the scene and are

A migrant worker from Guatemala is accused of stabbing a coworker over a missing phone on Christmas Eve in Pahokee. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) said on December 25, at 3:37 p.m., a supervisor at Pero Farms, flagged down deputies to report a violent incident that occurred the night before Christmas at a nearby migrant camp at 1401 Joe Louis Avenue. The supervisor told deputies, the alleged stabbing took place around 9:30 p.m. and other migrants living at

Lake Clarke Shores police says it’s investigating a hit-and-run that left a family of four injured on Christmas Eve. On Dec. 24, at around 8 p.m., Palm Beach County Fire Rescue responded to the 7000 block of West Lake Drive for reports of a car accident. A family riding in a golf cart had been struck by a pickup truck. Authorities said the truck fled the scene. All four family members were given emergency care at the scene and then

Two men were injured following a shooting in Norwood Thursday morning. At approximately 2 a.m., officers responded to 5611 Norwood Ave., Elevation Lounge, to two men having been shot.  One victim in his early 20s was shot in the back and foot and is in critical condition, and the other victim was shot in the forearm and the foot and is stable. Both were taken to the hospital, police said. Police said there was a fight inside Elevation Lounge in

The Mathews Bridge was closed for about four hours after a DUI-related crash with serious injuries, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Police said a JSO officer was blocking a lane on the bridge with his marked patrol vehicle with emergency lights activated, police said.  A B, 30, was arrested on seven misdemeanor DUI charges, and careless driving and failure to move over violations. The arrest report said a Good Samaritan stopped to help a man with a flat tire