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The Cape Coral Police Department confirms to Fox 4 that three people are dead after a crash on Burnt Store Road on Monday around 8:30 p.m. <\/p>\n
Police said a truck on Burnt Store Road was going south, while another truck was pulling a trailer north. <\/p>\n
An SUV was traveling behind the trailer truck, according to police. <\/p>\n
Investigators say the southbound truck drifted across the center line, and hit one of the other truck’s rear tires. <\/p>\n
The northbound truck then lost control, according to police, and the southbound truck hit the SUV. <\/p>\n
Cape Coral police say the SUV rolled off the road.<\/p>\n
Firefighters conducted extensive extrication on two of the three vehicles involved, according to police.<\/p>\n
Officers said the driver of the southbound truck and both people inside the SUV died. <\/p>\n
The victims have been identified. <\/p>\n
The Cape Coral Police Department said 48-year-old Laura Lee Beasley was driving the southbound truck. <\/p>\n
The two people inside of the SUV were 77-year-old Gary Lee Galiher and 79-year-old and Norma Jean Ralston, the department said. <\/p>\n
The northbound truck driver suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n
While roads were affected during the initial response, officers tell us all roads in the area reopened as of 3 a.m. Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Fox 4.A major crash closed Burnt Store Road on Monday evening, according to Cape Coral PD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cape Coral Police Department confirms to Fox 4 that three people are dead after a crash on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[749,209,211,210,12674,9393,266,748],"class_list":["post-14538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-breaking-news","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cape-coral-police-identify-three-victims-in-burnt-store-road-crash","tag-fox-4-wftx","tag-local-news","tag-newsbreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538","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=14538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}