{"id":193192,"date":"2026-03-16T07:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193192\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:53:16","slug":"breaking-speeding-car-hits-tree-and-catches-fire-in-fatal-crash-on-epcot-center-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193192\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Speeding Car Hits Tree and Catches Fire in Fatal Crash on EPCOT Center Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver perished in a single-vehicle crash on EPCOT Center Drive in Walt Disney World early the morning of March 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Fatal Crash on EPCOT Center Drive<a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-18-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Epcot Center Drive in Walt Disney World\" class=\"wp-image-1394919 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-18-7.jpg\" data-eio-rwidth=\"1200\" data-eio-rheight=\"900\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-18-7.jpg\" alt=\"Epcot Center Drive in Walt Disney World\" class=\"wp-image-1394919\" data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida Highway Patrol troopers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/news\/driver-killed-after-fiery-crash-epcot-center-drive-troopers-say?link_source=ta_first_comment&amp;taid=69b6c3a74f0fcd0001f2b4f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">responded to the accident<\/a> just north of Overpass Road at around 1:22 a.m. The car, which was going above the posted speed limit, ran off the road, hit a tree, and burst into flames. No other vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n<p><a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" data-caption=\"Credit: FOX 25 Orlando\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-18-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" alt=\"Speeding Car Hits Tree and Catches Fire in Fatal Crash on EPCOT Center Drive\" class=\"wp-image-1394918 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-18-6.jpg\" data-eio-rwidth=\"764\" data-eio-rheight=\"432\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-18-6.jpg\" alt=\"Speeding Car Hits Tree and Catches Fire in Fatal Crash on EPCOT Center Drive\" class=\"wp-image-1394918\" data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/a>Credit: FOX 25 Orlando<\/p>\n<p>The deceased driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/driver-dies-fiery-crash-after-speeding-car-hits-tree-near-disney-world\/UNT7F7V6LNA35PDGEIQJOV3VSM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">has yet to be identified<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest Disney Parks news and info, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">WDW News Today<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wdwnt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WDWNewsToday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Facebook<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wdwnt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver perished in a single-vehicle crash on EPCOT Center Drive in Walt Disney World early the morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[690,6125,749,16530,47217,89682,618,139,141,140,8064,30128],"class_list":["post-193192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-accident","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-car-accident","tag-epcot","tag-epcot-center-drive","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-walt-disney-world","tag-walt-disney-world-resort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193192","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=193192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}