{"id":328597,"date":"2026-07-03T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328597\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:00:41","slug":"bicyclist-struck-and-killed-by-brightline-train-forcing-road-closures-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328597\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist struck and killed by Brightline train, forcing road closures in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bicyclist is dead after he was struck by a Brightline train in Fort Lauderdale on Friday morning, police say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man, only identified by Fort Lauderdale police as an adult male bike rider, was attempting to cross the tracks at SR 84 when he was struck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Detectives have shut down the SR 84 westbound lanes due to the investigation. Fort Lauderdale police urges motorists to seek alternative routes such as Davie Blvd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No additional information has been released, including the circumstances surrounding the crash and the identity of the bicyclist killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bicyclist is dead after he was struck by a Brightline train in Fort Lauderdale on Friday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,249,251,250,807,74698],"class_list":["post-328597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-south-florida","tag-train-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328597","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=328597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}