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Aaron Maybin<\/p>\nPublished:\u00a0June 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM<\/p>\n
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy was hospitalized Friday after a hit-and-run crash in Fort Lauderdale, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Police have since cleared the scene, but an urgent search remains underway for the driver who struck a BSO patrol vehicle and fled.<\/p>\n
Video from the scene showed significant damage to the deputy\u2019s vehicle. The driver\u2019s side door was heavily crushed, and the airbags had deployed.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the crash happened around 6:15 p.m. near West Broward Boulevard and Northwest 11th Avenue. After the collision, the driver involved ran from the scene, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Investigators were seen examining a black Hyundai SUV as they continued working to determine exactly what led to the crash.<\/p>\n
Witnesses said the black SUV ran a red light before colliding with the deputy\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe black vehicle ran through the red light,\u201d the witness said. \u201cCaught the sheriff car on the side. The sheriff car spun all the way down Broward Boulevard until it made a stop and the officer was very injured. We know he\u2019s injured because he got hit on the driver\u2019s door.\u201d<\/p>\n
The witness said he went to check on the deputy after the crash.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen I went to check on the officer,\u201d he said. \u201cThe officer was pulled from the car. He wasn\u2019t thrown from the car. He was pulled from the car by paramedics.\u201d<\/p>\n
The deputy was rushed to a hospital for treatment. Authorities have not released an update on the deputy\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing as detectives work to identify and locate the driver who fled.<\/p>\n
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Aaron Maybin<\/p>\n
Aaron came to Local 10 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked as a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WITI-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy was hospitalized Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-297985","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\/297985","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=297985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}