{"id":115884,"date":"2026-01-13T02:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/115884\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T02:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:59:12","slug":"brightline-train-collision-with-suv-shuts-down-southeast-dixie-highway-in-stuart-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/115884\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightline train collision with SUV shuts down Southeast Dixie Highway in Stuart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STUART, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 A crash between a vehicle and a Brightline train has closed Southeast Dixie Highway in Stuart on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Stuart Police Department (SPD), Southeast Dixie Highway near Southeast Decker Avenue is closed after a Brightline train struck an unoccupied vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/two-fort-pierce-teens-arrested-after-snapchat-video-shows-both-shooting-from-car-collins-park-andy-marcin-ortiz-joel-macias-lozano-january-7-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two Fort Pierce teens arrested after Snapchat video shows both shooting from car<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos from SPD shows a smashed SUV on the train tracks with a Brightline train wedged into it. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A crash between a vehicle and a Brightline train has closed Southeast Dixie Highway in Stuart. According to the Stuart Police Department, Southeast Dixie Highway near Southeast Decker Avenue is closed after a Brightline train struck an unoccupied vehicle. (Stuart Police Department) \" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9b5e4a20-7317-4421-8a44-a9dc6cb6b6e7-Image1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A crash between a vehicle and a Brightline train has closed Southeast Dixie Highway in Stuart. According to the Stuart Police Department, Southeast Dixie Highway near Southeast Decker Avenue is closed after a Brightline train struck an unoccupied vehicle. (Stuart Police Department) <\/p>\n<p>At this time it&#8217;s unclear how the vehicle ended up on the tracks or where the driver could be. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>Police ask that travelers avoid the area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A crash between a vehicle and a Brightline train has closed Southeast Dixie Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-115884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115884","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=115884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}