{"id":164166,"date":"2026-02-21T22:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164166\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:03:07","slug":"fort-pierce-wreck-kills-passenger-leaves-2-drivers-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164166\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Pierce wreck kills passenger, leaves 2 drivers in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 One person is dead, and two others are seriously injured following a late-night crash on Friday in Fort Pierce.<\/p>\n

Shortly after 10 p.m. on Friday, officers with the Fort Pierce Police Department<\/a> say they responded to reports of a serious two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Virginia Avenue and South 35th Street.<\/p>\n

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One person is dead, and two others are seriously injured following a late-night crash on Friday in Fort Pierce. (WPEC)<\/p>\n

Investigators say a truck was attempting to turn left onto South 35th Street from Virginia Avenue when it was struck by a Dodge Charger traveling eastbound on Virginia Avenue at a high rate of speed.<\/p>\n

See also: 12-year-old airlifted after being shot inside Fort Pierce home; gunman at large<\/a><\/p>\n

Police say a passenger in the Silverado was ejected during the crash and suffered severe injuries. The passenger was transported to Lawnwood Regional Medical Center<\/a> & Heart Institute, where they later died from their injuries.<\/p>\n

Both drivers were also taken to Lawnwood Hospital in serious condition.<\/p>\n

The crash remains under investigation as detectives work to determine exactly what led up to the collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 One person is dead, and two others are seriously injured following a late-night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-164166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164166","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=164166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}