Brightline Train Hits Car In Boca Raton Monday Evening

BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2025 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — In what appears to be another example of a driver believing that stopping at an active railroad gate in South Florida is just a suggestion, a Brightline train plowed into a vehicle on the train tracks in Boca Raton Monday evening. Incredibly, no one was injured. The investigation continues Tuesday morning.

BocaNewsNow.com has learned that the incident happened just before 9 p.m. Monday on the tracks in the area of NW 28th Street in Boca Raton. That’s just north of the Boca Raton Brightline station. Brightline’s control center called Boca Raton Police and Fire Rescue units after the train hit the vehicle. First responders were on the scene within moments and found all occupants of the vehicle to be outside of the vehicle and safe.

Initial information obtained by BocaNewsNow.com — and we caution this information may change — is that the Brightline Train hit the very front of the vehicle at a relatively slow speed. No one on the train was injured. Service was halted on the rail line for part of the evening.

Brightline is considered the deadliest rail line in the United States in terms of train versus pedestrian and train versus car incidents. Despite railroad crossings with flashing lights and gates, drivers and pedestrians in South Florida continue to either ignore crossing warnings or believe they can beat the train, only to lose. Even the City of Delray Beach Fire Department attempted to cross train tracks while warning gates were down in late December. A fire truck was destroyed, 12 Brightline passengers and three firefighters were injured.