{"id":416882,"date":"2026-10-02T16:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416882\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:12:39","slug":"pedestrian-killed-by-fec-train-in-fort-lauderdale-prompting-road-closures-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416882\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed by FEC train in Fort Lauderdale, prompting road closures, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian was killed Friday morning after being struck by an FEC train in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/fort-lauderdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Lauderdale<\/a>, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened just before 10 a.m. near the Andrews Avenue and Flagler Drive crossing, according to the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene. Police did not immediately release the person&#8217;s identity or provide details about what led up to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The train remained stopped on the tracks late Friday morning as police conducted a death investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The incident prompted several road closures at the FEC tracks. Flagler Drive at Andrews Avenue, Sunrise Boulevard and Northeast 13th Street were completely blocked, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists were advised to use Broward Boulevard to the south or Oakland Park Boulevard to the north as alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>Police said updates would be provided as the roadways reopen.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian was killed Friday morning after being struck by an FEC train in Fort Lauderdale, police said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,249,251,250,74698],"class_list":["post-416882","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-train-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416882","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=416882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}