{"id":3421,"date":"2025-10-14T22:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/3421\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:39:31","slug":"scooter-rider-killed-in-crash-with-garbage-truck-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/3421\/","title":{"rendered":"Scooter rider killed in crash with garbage truck in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0October 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM<\/p>\n<p>Police investigate deadly scooter crash in Fort Lauderdale  Police are investigating a deadly crash that involved an individual on a scooter.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A person riding a scooter was killed Saturday morning in a crash with a garbage truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier in the morning, authorities closed the intersection of State Road 84 and South Federal Highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/10\/04\/choque-fatal-cierra-la-interseccion-de-state-road-84-y-federal-highway-en-fort-lauderdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/10\/04\/choque-fatal-cierra-la-interseccion-de-state-road-84-y-federal-highway-en-fort-lauderdale\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fort Lauderdale police said officers responded around 8 a.m. to the 2400 block of South Federal Highway. The scooter rider was pronounced dead at the scene by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cDue to a fatal crash involving a scooter, the intersection of State Road 84 and S Federal Highway is currently closed. Drivers should seek alternate routes,\u201d Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Traffic homicide investigators are handling the case, and no further details about the crash or the victim have been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Motorists are being diverted while police continue their investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related media<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Due to a fatal crash involving a scooter, the intersection of State Road 84 and S Federal Highway is currently closed. Drivers should seek alternate routes. Fort Lauderdale Police is on scene investigating. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JOII9gHf6N\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JOII9gHf6N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FLFR PIO (@FLFR411) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLFR411\/status\/1974457342583509079?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/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\/2025\/10\/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:\u00a0October 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM Updated:\u00a0October 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM Police investigate deadly scooter crash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-3421","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\/3421","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=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}