{"id":231945,"date":"2026-04-14T23:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231945\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:08:12","slug":"mail-carrier-rushed-to-trauma-center-after-fort-lauderdale-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231945\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail carrier rushed to trauma center after Fort Lauderdale crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 14, 2026 at 4:50 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 An investigation is underway after a crash involving a United States Postal Service mail carrier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/14\/trasladan-a-cartero-a-centro-de-trauma-tras-accidente-en-fort-lauderdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/14\/trasladan-a-cartero-a-centro-de-trauma-tras-accidente-en-fort-lauderdale\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened Tuesday afternoon in the area of Southwest 16th Street and Fourth Avenue in Fort Lauderdale\u2019s Croissant Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, it was a two-vehicle crash involving a USPS vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said a USPS employee was ejected from their vehicle in the crash and rushed to Broward Health Medical Center as a trauma alert. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The second vehicle\u2019s driver was also taken to the hospital for treatment, with injuries considered non-life-threatening, officials said. <\/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=\"David Dwork\" 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\/3469fa6e-3c52-46d2-a0.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>David Dwork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019. Born and raised in Miami-Dade County, David has covered South Florida sports since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 14, 2026 at 4:50 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 An investigation is underway after a crash involving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-231945","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\/231945","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=231945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}