{"id":349081,"date":"2026-07-22T21:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349081\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:37:09","slug":"woman-dies-after-falling-off-vehicle-during-altercation-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349081\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after falling off vehicle during altercation in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woman dies after falling off vehicle during altercation in Fort Lauderdale<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784756229_694_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Malcolm Shields\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The Fort Lauderdale Police Department is investigating a death.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The police department said on Wednesday, July 22, that it received a report of a car accident with a pedestrian at 2 a.m. in the 400 block of SE 32nd Street.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">When officers arrived at the scene, they learned that a man and woman, who knew each other, were involved in the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The police department learned a physical altercation between the two started at a local hotel.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">As the altercation escalated, the man attempted to leave in his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Your neighborhood: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/local-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local coverage from WPBF 25 News<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">According to the police department, the woman jumped on the hood of the man\u2019s vehicle and at some point, fell off while the vehicle was in motion.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">The woman was critically injured and transported to Broward Health Medical Center by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue. The woman died from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">After the incident, the man stopped the vehicle, contacted police and remained at the scene. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"10\">The woman was identified as 29-year-old Essence Landers. If anyone has information about the incident is asked to contact the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Woman dies after falling off vehicle during altercation in Fort Lauderdale FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 The Fort Lauderdale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[25773,4206,16530,249,251,250,59391,658,675,2391,677,13839,725,142825,732,2486,192,142824,189],"class_list":["post-349081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-altercation","tag-block","tag-car-accident","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-fort-lauderdale-police-department","tag-incident","tag-local-coverage","tag-man","tag-neighborhood","tag-newsaccording","tag-scene","tag-se-32nd-street","tag-vehicle","tag-wednesday","tag-woman","tag-woman-dies-after-falling-off-vehicle-during-altercation-in-fort-lauderdale","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349081","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=349081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}