{"id":416862,"date":"2026-10-02T15:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416862\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:48:07","slug":"pedestrian-struck-and-killed-by-train-in-fort-lauderdale-police-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416862\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian struck and killed by train in Fort Lauderdale, police say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after a pedestrian was struck and killed by a train in Fort Lauderdale on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened just before 10 a.m. near the Andrews Avenue and Flagler Drive crossing.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale Police officials said the pedestrian was struck and killed by a Florida East Coast Railway train.<\/p>\n<p>Their identity wasn&#8217;t released.<\/p>\n<p>The train was stopped on the tracks, leaving Flagler Drive at Andrews Avenue Sunrise Boulevard, and Northeast 13th Street completely blocked, police said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/FLPD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#FLPD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/TrafficAlert?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TrafficAlert<\/a> Due to an incident involving a train and a pedestrian, the following roads are completely blocked at the FEC tracks:<\/p>\n<p>Flagler Drive at Andrews Avenue<br \/>Sunrise Boulevard <br \/>NE 13th Street <\/p>\n<p>Motorists should use Broward Boulevard to the south or Oakland Park\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mv8ItTdmqU\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/mv8ItTdmqU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fort Lauderdale Police (@ftlauderdalepd) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ftlauderdalepd\/status\/2106028062512947347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 2, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>An investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after a pedestrian was struck and killed by a train in Fort Lauderdale on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-416862","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\/416862","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=416862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}