{"id":131390,"date":"2026-01-25T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131390\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:00:07","slug":"teen-killed-after-crashing-into-utility-pole-in-charlotte-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131390\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen killed after crashing into utility pole in Charlotte County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Troopers said an 18-year-old was killed after traveling at a high rate of speed and crashing into a utility pole and a fence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 1:04 a.m. Jan. 25 as the teen was driving south on Piper Road and approaching Jones Loop. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/01\/24\/pedestrian-killed-after-being-hit-by-impaired-driver-deputies-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/01\/24\/pedestrian-killed-after-being-hit-by-impaired-driver-deputies-say\/\">Pedestrian killed after being hit by impaired driver, deputies say<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Troopers said the vehicle left the roadway before colliding with a utility pole and a fence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Troopers said an 18-year-old was killed after traveling at a high rate of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-131390","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\/131390","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=131390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}