{"id":161548,"date":"2026-02-19T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161548\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:03:08","slug":"brightline-train-collides-with-scooter-rider-in-broward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161548\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightline train collides with scooter rider in Broward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0February 19, 2026 at 1:38 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/65D2OYJSPZH27KFPYWEWIWBK3A.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>Brightline train collision: A Brightline train and a scooter rider collided on Thursday in Pompano Beach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">POMPANO BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 Fire rescue personnel responded to a collision involving a Brightline train and a scooter rider on Thursday afternoon in Broward County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Brightline train had stopped on the tracks shortly after 1:30 p.m. near East Copans Road and North Dixie Highway in Pompano Beach.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7IEDVYQFTZHNDFG3TYKDE4QWH4.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Crash in Broward: A Brightline train collided with a scooter rider on Thursday in Pompano Beach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies also responded and remained at the intersection at 1:35 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There was crime scene tape around the scooter. Fire rescue personnel reported taking the scooter rider to Broward Health North as a \u201ctrauma alert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is a developing story. Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Location <\/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=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0February 19, 2026 at 1:38 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandBrightline train collision: A Brightline train and a scooter rider collided on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-161548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161548","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=161548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}