{"id":281177,"date":"2026-05-22T19:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/281177\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:05:15","slug":"freight-train-strikes-man-sending-him-into-river-in-fort-lauderdale-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/281177\/","title":{"rendered":"Freight train strikes man, sending him into river in Fort Lauderdale: officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Miami Herald;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Miami Herald\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2022-04\/2c007030-bc29-11ec-9eb3-6a75ebbbf0da.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Fri, May 22, 2026 at 2:26 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_miami_herald_mcclatchy_670\/5d4f2bfd57ac2af05fc186743d09e30f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A man was struck and killed by a freight train in Fort Lauderdale late Thursday. Rescue crews recovered him from the New River.<\/p>\n<p> (Getty Images | Royalty Free)<\/p>\n<p>A man was struck and killed by a freight train late Thursday night in Fort Lauderdale, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened near 400 Southwest Third Avenue around 11 p.m., near the New River. The man was ejected into the water and pulled out by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the investigation remains active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, May 22, 2026 at 2:26 PM UTC A man was struck and killed by a freight train&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,96479],"class_list":["post-281177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-freight-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281177","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=281177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}