{"id":298050,"date":"2026-06-06T03:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298050\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T03:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:28:08","slug":"broward-deputy-hospitalized-after-hit-and-run-in-fort-lauderdale-intersection-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298050\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward deputy hospitalized after hit-and-run in Fort Lauderdale intersection, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputy was taken to the hospital Friday evening after a cruiser collided with a black SUV whose driver immediately fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 6:15 p.m. at the intersection of Broward Boulevard and Northwest 11th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>A witness who captured cell phone video of the aftermath said the black SUV ran a red light and struck the driver&#8217;s side of the BSO patrol car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The black vehicle ran through the red light, caught the sheriff car on the side. The sheriff car spent all the way down Broward Boulevard till it made a stop,&#8221; the unnamed witness told CBS News Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The witness recounted that seconds after the crash, the driver of the SUV jumped out and ran across the street to get into a silver car, which then drove off. &#8220;He jumped out of his car, ran across the street, and got in the car with the silver car&#8230; and they drove off and left the black car by itself and left the officer injured,&#8221; the witness said.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics placed a neck brace on the injured deputy, secured the officer to a back board, and loaded the deputy into an ambulance. The deputy was transported to Broward Health.<\/p>\n<p>The witness described the crash as &#8220;very loud&#8221; and &#8220;very devastating&#8221; due to the power of the collision.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are waiting for a condition update on the deputy. There is no word yet on whether the driver who fled the scene has been taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputy was taken to the hospital Friday evening after a cruiser collided with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,115213,2336,249,251,250,5154],"class_list":["post-298050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-broward-sheriff039s-office","tag-car-crash","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-hit-and-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298050","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=298050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}