{"id":186797,"date":"2026-03-11T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186797\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T05:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:00:06","slug":"off-duty-slcfd-employee-drove-cart-that-struck-woman-at-fair-incident-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186797\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty SLCFD employee drove cart that struck woman at fair: Incident Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The incident report was released after a woman was struck by a fire district golf cart at the St. Lucie County fair<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A woman was hospitalized Saturday afternoon<\/a> after she was accidentally run over by a St. Lucie County Fire District golf cart at the St. Lucie County Fair, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> and the St. Lucie County Fire District<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Deputies assigned to the fair responded around 5:46 p.m. to the north side of the midway near the \u201cMama Jugs\u201d drink stand, where they found a 49-year-old woman on the ground with scrapes across her body. Fire rescue crews and fairgoers were already tending to her, according to the incident report. <\/p>\n

A witness told deputies that the woman was walking with friends when a golf cart came from behind, and someone on board yelled for the group to move. She said the woman was struck moments later, and the cart continued over her. <\/p>\n

Deputies identified the driver as a 48-year-old Sean Stevens, an off-duty St. Lucie County Fire District employee. Stevens told investigators he was driving slowly through the area when he encountered the group of women. He said he attempted to brake, but the cart lurched forward. According to the report, Stevens said he accidentally pressed the gas pedal while trying to stop\u2014a mistake he believed was caused by the wide footprint of the footwear he was wearing.<\/p>\n

Stevens told investigators that by the time he realized what had happened, the woman was already beneath the cart. He told deputies he tried again to brake but once again hit the gas inadvertently, due to his footwear, causing the cart to fully roll over her. Stevens was among the people providing aid when deputies arrived. <\/p>\n

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A passenger on the cart confirmed the driver\u2019s account, saying they were moving slowly toward the Destruction Derby <\/a>area when Stevens warned the group to step aside while simultaneously trying to stop. He said Stevens accidentally hit the gas pedal twice, hitting the woman and then driving over her. <\/p>\n

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Deputies said the woman was evaluated at the scene, transported as a trauma alert, and later released without serious injury, according to the report and the SLCFD. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The incident report was released after a woman was struck by a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-186797","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\/186797","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=186797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}