Driver killed in collision with high speed train

A driver was killed early Monday when a Brightline higher speed train hit his vehicle on the railroad tracks near Fort Lauderdale.

The crash happened in Pompano Beach just after 5:30 a.m. Monday in Pompano Beach. Due to the severity of the crash, the sheriff's office traffic homicide unit is investigating.

Its trains have fatally struck at least 58 people since beginning test runs in 2017, an average of about one death every 33,000 miles.