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<\/p>\n2 seriously injured after car catches fire following crash in Cape Coral<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 1:57 PM EDT May 14, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\tTwo people were seriously injured in a car crash in Cape Coral on Thursday.According to the Cape Coral Police Department, a car crash occurred in the area of Cape Coral Parkway East, west of Del Prado Boulevard South, shortly after noon. The car then caught fire.CCPD said two people were transported to a local hospital with serious injuries.Video above shows the scene where the minivan crashed into the tree. This is a developing story and will be updated.DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tCAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Two people were seriously injured in a car crash in Cape Coral on Thursday.<\/p>\n According to the Cape Coral Police Department, a car crash occurred in the area of Cape Coral Parkway East, west of Del Prado Boulevard South, shortly after noon. The car then caught fire.<\/p>\n CCPD said two people were transported to a local hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n Video above shows the scene where the minivan crashed into the tree. <\/p>\n This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 seriously injured after car catches fire following crash in Cape Coral Updated: 1:57 PM EDT May 14,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1185,209,211,210,220,214,1776,116194,104,855,1179,213,992,4428,197,221,11987],"class_list":["post-271188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-alert","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-car","tag-ccpd","tag-crash","tag-del-prado-boulevard-south","tag-entertainment","tag-fire","tag-gulf-coast-news-app","tag-late-news","tag-people","tag-phone","tag-sport","tag-weather","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271188","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=271188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}