{"id":223380,"date":"2026-04-08T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223380\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:15:09","slug":"major-crash-closes-part-of-i-4-south-of-downtown-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223380\/","title":{"rendered":"Major crash closes part of I-4 south of downtown Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA major crash shut down a part of I-4 westbound just south of downtown Orlando.The crash happened around 8:30 Wednesday morning near the Michigan Street exit.Orlando police are were on scene working to clear the crash. There were major delays in the area as traffic from SR-408 also merges onto I-4 westbound.Drivers can use the I-4 westbound express lanes to avoid the backups. Drivers need to enter the express lanes near the Maitland Boulevard exit if they are already on I-4 or in downtown Orlando if they are entering the interstate.All of the lanes have since reopened.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A major crash has shut down a part of I-4 westbound just south of downtown Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 8:30 Wednesday morning near the Michigan Street exit.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando police are on scene working to clear the crash.<\/p>\n<p>One lane is open to drivers. <\/p>\n<p>There are major delays in the area as traffic from SR-408 also merges onto I-4 westbound.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers can use the I-4 westbound express lanes to avoid the backups. Drivers need to enter the express lanes near the Maitland Boulevard exit if they are already on I-4 or in downtown Orlando if they are entering the interstate.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major crash shut down a part of I-4 westbound just south of downtown Orlando.The crash happened around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2954,29378,2275,2675,101097,17244,4264,101099,17312,17245,101098,139,141,140,1120,3574,73173,729],"class_list":{"0":"post-223380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-area","9":"tag-backup","10":"tag-downtown-orlando","11":"tag-driver","12":"tag-i-4-south","13":"tag-i-4-westbound","14":"tag-lane","15":"tag-maitland-boulevard-exit","16":"tag-major-crash","17":"tag-major-delay","18":"tag-michigan-street-exit","19":"tag-orlando","20":"tag-orlando-headlines","21":"tag-orlando-news","22":"tag-orlando-police","23":"tag-part","24":"tag-sr-408","25":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223380","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=223380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}