{"id":324671,"date":"2026-05-20T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324671\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:07:10","slug":"1-dead-after-tri-rail-train-collides-with-suv-in-oakland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324671\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead after Tri-Rail train collides with SUV in Oakland Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 20, 2026 at 10:40 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OAKLAND PARK, Fla.  \u2014 A person was killed Wednesday morning after a Tri-Rail train collided with an SUV in Oakland Park, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/20\/una-persona-muere-luego-de-que-tren-tri-rail-chocara-contra-suv-en-oakland-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/20\/una-persona-muere-luego-de-que-tren-tri-rail-chocara-contra-suv-en-oakland-park\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Oakland Park Fire Rescue officials said the train struck the SUV and pushed it approximately 200 to 300 yards down the tracks. The driver of the SUV, who has not yet been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sky 10 flew over the tracks near Oakland Park Boulevard around 10:25 a.m. as first responders surveyed the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said westbound lanes reopened, but all eastbound lanes remained closed at Northwest 18th Avenue as the investigation continued.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 20, 2026 at 10:40 AM OAKLAND PARK, Fla. \u2014 A person was killed Wednesday morning after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-324671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}