{"id":188548,"date":"2026-03-12T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188548\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:20:07","slug":"driver-causes-power-outage-after-crashing-into-pole-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188548\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver causes power outage after crashing into pole | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla.&#8211;A driver is on the run after crashing into a pole, causing a power outage for hundreds in Cape Coral overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred just before 1 a.m. Thursday morning on Gator Circle. The car flipped on its side, landing just inches from a front door.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral police informed WINK News that the driver fled the scene after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few hours ago, 261 people in northeast Cape Coral were affected by power outages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"vlcsnap-2026-03-12-06h57m06s675.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Check the latest on the Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcec.net\/my-reliability\/storm-center\/outage-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">power outage map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The LCEC map indicates that power should be restored in the early morning hours.<\/p>\n<p>WINK News is working to gather more information from police about the driver&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla.&#8211;A driver is on the run after crashing into a pole, causing a power outage for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,212,2675,39646,38772,17346],"class_list":["post-188548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cape-coral-police","tag-driver","tag-electric-power","tag-outage","tag-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188548","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=188548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}