A fatal crash on Interstate 75 on Friday resulted in three deaths, including two children. <\/p>\n
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash took place just before 6 p.m. on Friday near the Bayshore exit in Charlotte County at Mile Marker 153.<\/p>\n
FHP officials said a Jeep Wrangler was traveling at a high rate of speed south in I-75 and \u201cabruptly veered\u201d into the northbound lanes into the path of a Hyundai Santa Fe. <\/p>\n
The front of the Jeep impacted the left side of the Hyundai, causing the Santa Fe to separate into two pieces and come to rest on the right shoulder. <\/p>\n
FHP officials stated the driver of the Santa Fe, a 25-year-old male, and a young boy were pronounced dead at the scene. A second boy was transported by med flight to Tampa General Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. The two juveniles were ages 5 and 6. All three were from North Fort Myers.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Jeep, a 28-year-old from Laurel, New York, sustained \u201cserious injury\u201d and was transported to a local hospital.<\/p>\n
FHP officials stated the crash remains under investigation, with charges pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fatal crash on Interstate 75 on Friday resulted in three deaths, including two children. According to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-212046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212046","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=212046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}