{"id":273925,"date":"2026-05-17T01:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273925\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T01:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:58:08","slug":"fort-pierce-candlelight-vigil-held-for-mother-son-killed-in-wrong-way-turnpike-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273925\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Pierce candlelight vigil held for mother, son killed in wrong-way Turnpike crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A candlelight memorial Saturday evening in Fort Pierce honored Lauren Rogers, who was killed in a wrong-way crash<\/a> on Florida\u2019s Turnpike along with her 3-year-old son.<\/p>\n

The service will take place at 6 p.m. at the Fort Pierce Jetty at 2098 Seaway Drive. Loved ones are asking attendees to bring candles as they gather to remember Rogers and her children.<\/p>\n

In a post to Facebook<\/a>, the family shared that attendees are invited to continue to come together and share laughs and memories at Erin’s Irish Pub in Fort Pierce, with 10% of the pub’s proceeds going to Lauren’s family and children.<\/p>\n

Family members say the 26-year-old mother of two died at the scene<\/a> of the May 9 crash near mile marker 173.5. Florida Highway Patrol said she was driving a 2025 Kia K4 southbound in the northbound inside lane when she collided head-on with a 2023 Chrysler Pacifica, sparking a chain-reaction crash involving a third vehicle.<\/p>\n

\"Lauren<\/p>\n

Lauren Rogers and her sons, Korbin and Kylo. (Photo credit: Alexa June Baker)<\/p>\n

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Her son, Kylo, was critically injured and later died<\/a> on Thursday at 9:02 a.m., according to the family. Her 5-year-old son, Korbin, survived with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

Several other people were hurt, including the driver of the Chrysler, a 22-year-old man, and three passengers. Troopers said their injuries were not life-threatening.<\/p>\n

Friends say Rogers was deeply devoted to her children.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was very present with the way that the kids were talking, what they liked, how they thought, what they wanted,\u201d close friend Alexa June Baker told CBS12 News.<\/p>\n

Rogers\u2019 father previously said, \u201cThey were her life. That was her life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The crash remains under investigation by the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A candlelight memorial Saturday evening in Fort Pierce honored Lauren Rogers, who was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-273925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273925","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=273925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}