HARDEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Two Southwest Florida men were killed and another was critically injured following a crash involving a car and a semi truck Tuesday in Hardee County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. <\/p>\n
Authorities say a 2025 Kia was traveling north on County Road 663 and approaching a stop sign at the intersection of State Road 64. <\/p>\n
At the same time, a semi tractor-trailer was traveling east on State Road 64.<\/p>\n
Troopers say the Kia failed to yield the right of way and entered the intersection, where the front of the vehicle collided with the trailer portion of the semi truck.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Kia, a 35-year-old man from Fort Myers, and a passenger, a 22-year-old man from Cape Coral, were both pronounced dead at the scene. A second passenger in the Kia, a 25-year-old man from Fort Myers, sustained critical injuries and was transported to a local hospital.<\/p>\n
The driver of the semi truck, a 71-year-old man from Wauchula, was not reported injured.<\/p>\n
The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARDEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Two Southwest Florida men were killed and another was critically injured following a crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-128994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128994","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=128994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}