{"id":126079,"date":"2026-01-21T07:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126079\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:27:14","slug":"crash-on-i-95-kills-71-year-old-man-in-port-st-lucie-investigation-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126079\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash on I-95 kills 71-year-old man in Port St. Lucie; investigation ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 More information was revealed about a single deadly vehicle crash that occurred on Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n

According to a crash report from the Florida Highway Patrol, a 2026 GMC Acadia SUV was traveling north on I-95 near mile marker 116 in the city limits of Port St. Lucie. <\/p>\n

See also: Woman who crashed into courthouse maneuvered car to hit doors, police say<\/a><\/p>\n

The police department says the vehicle drifted off the roadway to the left, entered the grass median, and collided with a tree. <\/p>\n

The driver, identified as a 71-year-old man, was taken to HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n

The traffic homicide investigation is ongoing, police say. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 More information was revealed about a single deadly vehicle crash that occurred…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28,13840,5085,25604,132,171,173,172,8846,1402,729],"class_list":["post-126079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-florida","tag-gatlin-boulevard","tag-i-95","tag-mile-marker-116","tag-police","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-roadblock","tag-st-lucie-county","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126079","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=126079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}