{"id":285058,"date":"2026-05-26T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285058\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:00:11","slug":"bicyclist-hit-killed-by-brightline-train-in-stuart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285058\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist hit, killed by Brightline train in Stuart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STUART, Fla. \u2014 A bicyclist was hit and killed Tuesday morning by a Brightline train in Martin County, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The collision occurred near the intersection of Southeast Dixie Highway and Southeast Monterey Road. <\/p>\n<p>Drivers can expect heavy delays in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Stuart posted on its Facebook page at 11:37 a.m. that electricity is out in the area. Drivers are urged to avoid the area if possible.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with WPTV.com and WPTV News for updates.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second fatal incident involving a Brightline train in three days, after two people were <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/local-news\/our-community\/west-palm-beach\/two-people-killed-after-vehicle-strikes-brightline-train-in-west-palm-beach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">killed in West Palm Beach on Sunday.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. \u2014 A bicyclist was hit and killed Tuesday morning by a Brightline train in Martin County,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[120986,20179,28,1160,171,173,172,179,12758],"class_list":["post-285058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-bicyclist-hit-and-killed","tag-brightline","tag-florida","tag-martin-county","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-treasure-coast","tag-wptv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285058","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=285058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}