{"id":272752,"date":"2026-05-15T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272752\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:01:08","slug":"vehicle-fire-causes-delays-on-i-75-in-charlotte-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272752\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle fire causes delays on I-75 in Charlotte County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Drivers should expect delays on southbound Interstate 75 after a vehicle fire Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to an alert shared from the Charlotte County Sheriff, Florida Highway Patrol troopers were on scene at mile marker 166 as of 4:01 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/05\/14\/tractor-trailer-crash-closes-i-75-thursday-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/05\/14\/tractor-trailer-crash-closes-i-75-thursday-morning\/\">I-75 crash in Bradenton causes hours of delays<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The right lane was closed because of the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No injuries, cause of the fire or estimated reopening time were included in the alert.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Drivers should expect delays on southbound Interstate 75 after a vehicle fire Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,853,618,11147,23850],"class_list":["post-272752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charlotte-county","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-traffic-delays","tag-vehicle-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272752","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=272752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}