{"id":418531,"date":"2026-10-04T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418531\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:30:12","slug":"amtrak-train-strikes-kills-man-walking-on-tracks-in-osceola-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418531\/","title":{"rendered":"AMTRAK train strikes, kills man walking on tracks in Osceola County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No description found<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/QPQQ2MRQVNFZJDJAWUB4MT2XHI.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 A man in the Kissimmee area was killed after an AMTRAK train struck him Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The crash happened in the area of Michigan Avenue near Garden Street just after 7 p.m. That\u2019s just south of Osceola Parkway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">A Florida Highway Patrol news release says a man was walking north along the track just west of Michigan Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The train conductor pulled the emergency brake but was unable to get the train to stop in time. Troopers say the man died at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">No one on the train was hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">His identity has not been released, and the crash is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorChristie Zizo headshot<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791127812_997_adec0918-c990-4cdc-9c28-b37e18cc145b.png\"\/><a class=\"sc-bmzYkS fERtCt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/team\/MXP2LP3PA0IS39Z30WVD5Q4Z8L\/\" title=\"View Christie Zizo&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christie Zizo<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ctDavV cigBRW\">Christie joined the ClickOrlando team in November 2021.  She cultivated her political reporting skills at Spectrum News 13, and before that at UCF. She spends her spare time with her beagle, Lulu, finding hidden gems around Central Florida, playing the violin and indulging her love for all things geek with her friends. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No description found OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 A man in the Kissimmee area was killed after an AMTRAK&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,1975,1976,729],"class_list":["post-418531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-kissimmee","tag-osceola-county","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418531","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=418531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}