{"id":237536,"date":"2026-04-19T03:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T03:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237536\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T03:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T03:05:13","slug":"pickup-driver-airlifted-after-colliding-with-semi-truck-on-sawgrass-expressway-in-weston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237536\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickup driver airlifted after colliding with semi-truck on Sawgrass Expressway in Weston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 18, 2026 at 10:53 AM<\/p>\n<p>A driver was airlifted Saturday morning after a serious crash on the Sawgrass Expressway near Indian Trace Boulevard in Weston, causing major traffic delays in the area, authorities confirmed.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WESTON, Fla.  \u2014 A driver was airlifted Saturday morning after a serious crash on the Sawgrass Expressway near Indian Trace Boulevard in Weston, causing major traffic delays in the area, authorities confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/18\/trasladan-en-helicoptero-a-conductor-de-camioneta-tras-chocar-con-camion-en-sawgrass-expressway-en-weston\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/18\/trasladan-en-helicoptero-a-conductor-de-camioneta-tras-chocar-con-camion-en-sawgrass-expressway-en-weston\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office, rescue crews responded just after 9 a.m. and found a pickup truck had slammed into the rear of a semi-truck and became wedged underneath the trailer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said at least one person was trapped inside the pickup and had to be extricated by technical rescue teams. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said the individual was airlifted by Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue\u2019s Air Rescue team to Broward Health Medical Center for treatment. Deputies said the person was in stable condition at the time of transport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Emergency crews remained at the scene Saturday morning as investigators worked to determine what led to the crash. A city of Weston spokesperon wrote in a post on X that the Sawgrass Expressway \u201cpartially reopened\u201d at 10:05 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said the Florida Highway Patrol is leading the investigation into the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No other details about the crash were immediately released. <\/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=\"Ryan Mackey\" 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\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 18, 2026 at 10:53 AM A driver was airlifted Saturday morning after a serious crash on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-237536","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\/237536","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=237536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}