{"id":368661,"date":"2026-08-11T19:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368661\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:28:26","slug":"45-year-old-psl-man-killed-after-being-struck-by-tractor-in-i-95-work-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368661\/","title":{"rendered":"45-year-old PSL man killed after being struck by tractor in I-95 work zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 45-year-old Port St. Lucie man was killed Monday night after he was struck by a tractor in an active I-95 construction zone.<\/p>\n

The incident happened around 10:04 p.m. near Mile Marker 117, according to the Florida Highway Patrol<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FHP said a Massey Ferguson tractor<\/a> with a front-mounted rotary sweeper was traveling south in the inside northbound lane, which was closed to traffic for repaving work.<\/p>\n

The tractor was driven by a 38-year-old Royal Palm Beach man who worked for Timothy Rose Construction<\/a>, a company contracted by FDOT.<\/p>\n

See also: Florida deputy accused of kidnapping ex in front of her kids, killing her, himself<\/a><\/p>\n

A dump truck driver had parked in the work zone and exited his vehicle. FHP said the 45-year-old man was standing in the inside lane when the tractor approached and struck him.<\/p>\n

He was taken to Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital<\/a>, where he was pronounced dead at 11:08 p.m.<\/p>\n

The tractor driver was not injured and was arrested at the scene on an unrelated warrant.<\/p>\n

FHP said no traditional crash report will be available because the incident involved an industrial vehicle in a closed construction zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 45-year-old Port St. Lucie man was killed Monday night after he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-368661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368661","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=368661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}