{"id":217819,"date":"2026-04-03T19:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217819\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:06:15","slug":"broward-deputy-hit-by-car-while-directing-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217819\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward deputy hit by car while directing traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ambulance_final (1).jpg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"A Broward County deputy was hit by a car while directing traffic near Eller Drive and McIntosh Road in Port Everglades, agency says.\" alt=\"A Broward County deputy was hit by a car while directing traffic near Eller Drive and McIntosh Road in Port Everglades, agency says.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A Broward County deputy was hit by a car while directing traffic near Eller Drive and McIntosh Road in Port Everglades, agency says.<\/p>\n<p>            Getty Images | Royalty Free<\/p>\n<p>At Broward sheriff\u2019s deputy was hit by a car while directing traffic on Friday morning, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>At around 11:30 a.m., calls came in about the deputy getting hit by a car near Eller Drive and McIntosh Road in Port Everglades, according to the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the driver who hit the deputy remained on the scene. Paramedics took the deputy to the hospital where his condition is listed as \u201cnot life-threatening,\u201d said BSO, which is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/288625454\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milena Malaver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Milena Malaver covers crime and breaking news for the Miami Herald. She was born and raised in Miami-Dade and is a graduate of Florida International University. She joined the Herald shortly after graduating.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Broward County deputy was hit by a car while directing traffic near Eller Drive and McIntosh Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-217819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217819","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=217819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}