Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver that killed a 2-year-old girl and injured her parents in North Miami-Dade.
Getty Images
Getty Images/iStockphoto
Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver that killed a 2-year-old girl and injured her parents in North Miami-Dade.
The tragedy happened in the area of Northwest 10th Avenue and 116th Terrace, near North Miami, around 9:38 p.m. Wednesday, according to Miami-Dade police.
The toddler and her parents were walking across Northwest 12th Avenue west on 116th Street when a driver heading north struck them and kept going, police said.
The family was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where the toddler died, police said. Her parents, who are both 40, are in “stable condition,” police said.
Police said they don’t have any information yet on the type of car that hit the family.
Anyone with information that can help detectives find the driver should call police.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
.jpg "Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver that killed a 2-year-old girl and injured her parents in North Miami-Dade.")
