{"id":31895,"date":"2025-11-03T22:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31895\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T22:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:16:06","slug":"victim-identified-in-deadly-halloween-e-scooter-crash-in-port-st-lucie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31895\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim identified in deadly Halloween e-scooter crash in Port St. Lucie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 The identity of the man who was struck and killed while riding an e-scooter on Halloween was released Monday, according to the Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD). <\/p>\n<p>The man was identified as 49-year-old Victor Santiago, who, at around 5:45 a.m., was traveling north on an <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/port-st-lucie-intersection-closed-after-deadly-scooter-crash-st-lucie-county-florida-news-police-investigation-underway-october-31-2025\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/port-st-lucie-intersection-closed-after-deadly-scooter-crash-st-lucie-county-florida-news-police-investigation-underway-october-31-2025\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">electric scooter through the SE Crosstown <\/a>Parkway, according to PSLPD.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/bat-meets-bumper-bash-in-road-rage-brawl-outside-palm-beach-county-library-3600-block-summit-blvd-november-3-2025\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/bat-meets-bumper-bash-in-road-rage-brawl-outside-palm-beach-county-library-3600-block-summit-blvd-november-3-2025\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bat meets bumper bash in road rage brawl outside Palm Beach County library<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police say their investigation revealed that a 2021 Mercedes traveling on SE Crosstown Parkway struck the scooter, ejecting Santiago. Following the crash, the driver of the Mercedes stayed on the scene. Santiago was taken to the hospital and was transported to the St. Lucie Medical Center, where he died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash is currently under investigation. Anyone who may have witnessed the crash is asked to contact Officer Keith Applebaum at 772-871-5001 or the Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at 800-273-8477.<\/p>\n<p>Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news.<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/sign-up\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day&#8217;s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CBS12NewsWPEC\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CBS12NewsWPEC\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can&#8217;t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The identity of the man who was struck and killed while riding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1776,22679,503,667,22680,171,173,172,12783,6411],"class_list":{"0":"post-31895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-crash","9":"tag-e-scooter","10":"tag-halloween","11":"tag-investigation","12":"tag-mercedes","13":"tag-port-st-lucie","14":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","15":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","16":"tag-road-safety","17":"tag-victim"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31895","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=31895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}