{"id":328547,"date":"2026-07-03T16:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328547\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:07:10","slug":"west-state-road-84-closed-in-fort-lauderdale-after-pedestrian-killed-by-brightline-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328547\/","title":{"rendered":"West State Road 84 closed in Fort Lauderdale after pedestrian killed by Brightline train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 3, 2026 at 11:43 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/QRYCCXV7FVEQBGOYZDX3TGPDV4.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A bicycle laid on its side along railroad tracks Friday morning after a person was struck and killed by a Brightline train in Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened around 9:30 a.m. in the 200 block of State Road 84, near where Marina Mile crosses over the railroad tracks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives shut down westbound lanes of State Road 84 while they collected evidence and investigated the scene. The train remained stopped just feet away from the person who died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10\u2019s Brett Knese was at the scene of the fatal crash as investigators worked to identify the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The crash marked the second deadly train-related incident in the area in about 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Around 9:20 p.m. Thursday, police crews responded to the same set of tracks, farther north near Southwest Second Avenue and Second Street, where a woman was struck and killed by a train, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police identified the woman Friday as Elizabeth McLaughlin, 25, and said her death appeared to be a suicide. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have not released any details about the circumstances that led up to Friday\u2019s crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Help is available 24\/7 for those who are contemplating suicide by calling or texting the <a href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=onebox\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=onebox\">Suicide and Crisis Lifeline<\/a> at 988.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related Media<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pedestrian struck by train in the 200 block of SR 84 at the train tracks. SR 84 closed westbound lanes due to investigation. Please seek alternate route, Davie Blvd. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S0RcfEqeT4\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/S0RcfEqeT4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fort Lauderdale Police (@ftlauderdalepd) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ftlauderdalepd\/status\/2073047056772456895?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Brett Knese\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d3b079d0-0444-499b-8cb7-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Brett Knese<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Brett Knese joined the Local 10 News team as a general assignment reporter in March 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 3, 2026 at 11:43 AM Updated:\u00a0July 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-328547","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\/328547","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=328547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}