MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — A driver was arrested Tuesday morning after striking an 11-year-old in Miami Gardens, sending the child to the hospital with serious head injuries, police said.
According to Miami Gardens police, the crash was reported at 7:53 a.m. in the 1200 block of Northwest 188th Street.
Police said the driver of a black Ford Fusion was heading south on Northwest 12th Avenue at a high rate of speed when they tried to bypass slow-moving traffic by driving onto the swale.
The driver then crashed the car into a tree and then struck the child, police said.
Police confirmed that the driver was arrested on reckless driving charges.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials, meanwhile, airlifted the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center with serious but stable head injuries.
The identities of the suspect and victim have not yet been released.
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