{"id":112699,"date":"2026-01-10T04:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112699\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T04:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:05:09","slug":"two-rescued-from-sinking-car-after-crash-into-i-75-retention-pond-in-fort-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112699\/","title":{"rendered":"Two rescued from sinking car after crash into I-75 retention pond in Fort Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 Two people were rescued from a sinking vehicle after it crashed into a retention pond at Interstate 75 and Colonial Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768017909_427_.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"1159\"\/><\/p>\n<p>South Trail Fire Rescue said it responded to the single-vehicle crash around 5:04 p.m. Both occupants managed to escape the sinking car and climbed on top of the vehicle while it remained partially submerged in the water.<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768017909_100_.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"1080\" height=\"1148\"\/><\/p>\n<p>South Trail said the occupants told responders they could not swim, prompting a rescue swimmer equipped with a life jacket and rescue board to safely bring them to shore.<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768017909_952_.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"1229\" height=\"1230\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Both people were successfully rescued through a coordinated effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 Two people were rescued from a sinking vehicle after it crashed into a retention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,4489,57350,57345,57344,356,57349,57351,57347,29288,57348,57346],"class_list":["post-112699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-downtown-fort-myers-florida","tag-exit-136","tag-fort-myers-rescue","tag-i-75-crash","tag-lee-county","tag-lee-county-emergency-response","tag-multi-agency-rescue","tag-retention-pond-accident","tag-south-trail-fire-rescue","tag-vehicle-submersion","tag-water-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112699","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=112699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}