{"id":15720,"date":"2025-10-22T14:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15720\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:30:06","slug":"passenger-falls-45-ft-from-i-75-bridge-after-crash-near-peace-river-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15720\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger falls 45 ft. from I-75 bridge after crash near Peace River Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A passenger in a Jeep involved in a crash fell off a concrete ledge and had to be rescued by first responders. <\/p>\n<p>According to Florida Highway Patrol, a semi-truck and a Jeep crashed on northbound I-75 near the Peace River Bridge in Charlotte County. <\/p>\n<p>Troopers said the 67-year-old man, who was the passenger in the Jeep, tried to make his way to the semi-truck after the crash by walking on top of the concrete ledge. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when authorities said he fell about 45 feet and landed in a wooded area. <\/p>\n<p>Charlotte County Fire hoisted the injured man back onto the bridge and sent him to the hospital. <\/p>\n<p>The crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A passenger in a Jeep involved in a crash fell off a concrete ledge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,1776,1056,264,266,115,729,8774],"class_list":{"0":"post-15720","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","11":"tag-crash","12":"tag-fhp","13":"tag-fox-4","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-traffic","17":"tag-trooper"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720","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=15720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}