{"id":192795,"date":"2026-03-15T22:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192795\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T22:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:05:27","slug":"driver-killed-after-fiery-crash-on-epcot-center-drive-troopers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192795\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed after fiery crash on EPCOT center drive, troopers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/orange-county-fiery-crash.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A driver was killed after a crash near EPCOT early Sunday morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Troopers responded to the incident around 1:22 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Officials say a 2023 Hyundai Elantra was traveling northbound on EPCOT Center Drive just north of Overpass Road when the crash occurred.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Investigators say the vehicle was traveling above the posted speed limit and the driver failed to negotiate a curve in the roadway. The car then ran off the road in a northwesterly direction and collided with a tree.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Following the impact, the vehicle became fully engulfed in flames, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The crash remains under investigation by the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written based on information provided by the Florida Highway Patrol on March 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A driver was killed after a crash near EPCOT early Sunday morning, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47,115,1335,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-192795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192795","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=192795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}