{"id":162486,"date":"2026-02-20T12:18:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162486\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:18:55","slug":"traffic-alert-major-crash-on-i-4-w-near-hard-rock-in-tampa-causing-slowdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162486\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic alert: Major crash on I-4 W near Hard Rock in Tampa causing slowdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two left lanes of I-4 W are blocked near U.S. 301 in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Several lanes of I-4 West in Tampa are blocked Friday morning due to a major crash.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Transportation responded just before 6:30 a.m. to I-4 W near U.S. 301 and the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino. Two left lanes are blocked, causing slowdowns in the area.<\/p>\n<p>FDOT said the crash involved injuries but did not share how many people were hurt or how many cars were involved.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two left lanes of I-4 W are blocked near U.S. 301 in Tampa. TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Several lanes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-162486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162486","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=162486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}