{"id":223406,"date":"2026-04-08T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:33:19","slug":"driver-dies-after-crashing-car-into-billboard-support-post-on-i-95-in-broward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223406\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies after crashing car into billboard support post on I-95 in Broward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 8, 2026 at 8:46 AM<\/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\/04\/UOZVPEN4JJBNJISIWB72ASGHWY.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>(WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OAKLAND PARK, Fla.  \u2014 A driver died early Wednesday morning after crashing his or her car into a billboard support post on Interstate 95 in Broward County, the Florida Highway Patrol confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/08\/muere-conductor-tras-estrellarse-contra-poste-de-cartel-publicitario-en-la-i-95-en-broward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/08\/muere-conductor-tras-estrellarse-contra-poste-de-cartel-publicitario-en-la-i-95-en-broward\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to FHP, the crash occurred in the northbound lanes of the highway, just south of Oakland Park Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Troopers said the car was heading north on the highway when, for unknown reasons, the driver ran off the road to the right, entered the outside grass shoulder and crashed into the billboard support post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Troopers said the car then overturned and came to a final rest within the tree line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver, whose identity has not yet been released, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 8, 2026 at 8:46 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(WPLG) OAKLAND PARK, Fla. \u2014 A driver died early Wednesday morning after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-223406","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\/223406","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=223406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}