A bicyclist was struck and killed Tuesday morning by a Virgin USA train in Pompano Beach.
It happened in the 3300 block of North Dixie Highway on the Florida East Coast railroad tracks, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. A section of 33rd Street was briefly closed during the investigation.
Witnesses told deputies the man crossed the tracks — trying to beat the train — when he was struck. He died at the rail crossing.
An identity has not been released.
More than a dozen pedestrians have been killed by the trains, formerly known as Brightline, began test runs in South Florida in 2017. A man was also taken to the hospital as a trauma alert in June after he walked into the side of a train just north of the Miami-Dade/Broward county line.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
