{"id":237966,"date":"2026-04-19T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237966\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:11:07","slug":"1-dead-7-teens-injured-in-i-4-crash-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237966\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 7 teens injured in I-4 crash: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776615067_7_fhp-generic.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; Florida Highway Patrol troopers are investigating a serious overnight crash on Interstate 4 that left one teenager dead and several others injured early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to officials, the crash occurred at approximately 3:30 a.m. after a 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer, carrying eight teenagers, was traveling westbound in the inside lane of I-4 when its right rear tire blew out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Reports suggest that the sudden failure caused the vehicle to lose control, overturn multiple times, and veer onto the left shoulder before colliding with the median guardrail.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">During the crash, one passenger was ejected from the vehicle and landed in the eastbound center lane of the interstate.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Moments later, a 2017 Lexus CT traveling eastbound in the center lane struck the ejected passenger. The impact proved fatal.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Responders took the Trailblazer driver and six passengers to Orlando Regional Medical Center. The ejected passenger was taken to Osceola Regional Medical Center and pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The driver and passenger of the Lexus were not injured and remained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Authorities confirmed that the crash remains under active investigation.<\/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 April 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; Florida Highway Patrol troopers are investigating a serious overnight crash on Interstate 4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47,115,1335,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-237966","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\/237966","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=237966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}