{"id":230169,"date":"2026-04-13T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230169\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:26:09","slug":"multiple-crashes-in-lee-county-caused-slowdowns-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230169\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple crashes in Lee County caused slowdowns | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 An early morning crash on I-75 slowed traffic in the southbound lanes in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"188\" data-end=\"282\">According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash happened Monday morning just after 6 a.m. near Colonial Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"284\" data-end=\"352\">The crash caused delays for about 10 miles near mile marker 134.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"0413 Caloosahatchee Bridge Crash.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"460\">Separately, a crash near the Caloosahatchee Bridge slowed down traffic near downtown Fort Myers on U.S. 41.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"462\" data-end=\"595\">Drivers should also expect delays near Babcock Ranch Road\/State Road 31 due to the recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/wilson-pigott-bridge-shuts-down-for-repairs-expect-major-detours\/article_70e4eedb-e5fc-4956-ab38-75025a9c6a51.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">10-day closure of the Wilson Pigott Bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"0413 Wilson Pigott Bridge Backups.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 An early morning crash on I-75 slowed traffic in the southbound lanes in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[17857,209,211,210,28,897,356,103110,4571,50602],"class_list":{"0":"post-230169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-caloosahatchee-bridge","9":"tag-cape-coral","10":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","11":"tag-cape-coral-news","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-fort-myers","14":"tag-lee-county","15":"tag-the-southbound","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-wilson-pigott-bridge"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230169","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=230169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}