{"id":170641,"date":"2026-02-26T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170641\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:22:08","slug":"florida-turnpike-closes-near-sunrise-boulevard-in-broward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170641\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Turnpike closes near Sunrise Boulevard in Broward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0February 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/NUS5KLHOGRFKTN64PIKWGOAY2Y.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>FLORIDA TURNPIKE: Florida Highway Patrol troopers, Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies and fire rescue personnel responded to a crash on Thursday afternoon on the southbound lanes of the Florida Turnpike near Sunrise Boulevard in Broward County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BROWARD COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 The southbound lanes of the Florida Turnpike were closed near Sunrise Boulevard after a crash on Thursday in Broward County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Florida Highway Patrol troopers, Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies, and fire rescue personnel responded to the crash. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VBEEANQMFFBCPPJLQ7K4W3CSF4.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>CRASH ON TURNPIKE Fire rescue personnel and deputies surround an injured person after a crash on Thursday on the Florida Turnpike in Broward County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shortly after 5:05 p.m., fire rescue personnel and law enforcement helped a person to get out of the back of a marked patrol car, onto a gurney, and into an ambulance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For more information about traffic in your area,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/traffic\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/traffic\/\"> visit this page. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is a developing story. Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0February 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandFLORIDA TURNPIKE: Florida Highway Patrol troopers, Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies and fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-170641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170641","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=170641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}