{"id":275016,"date":"2026-05-18T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275016\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:36:08","slug":"john-young-parkway-lanes-blocked-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275016\/","title":{"rendered":"John Young Parkway lanes blocked in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deadly crash shuts down John Young Parkway northbound lanes, Orlando police say<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTHIS TIME, IT\u2019S NOT JUST AN ISOLATED MOMENT. WESH TWO NEWS STARTS NOW WITH BREAKING NEWS. BUT HERE AT 7 A.M., WE WANT TO GET TO BREAKING NEWS OUT ON THE ROADS. GOOD MONDAY MORNING. THANKS FOR JOINING US. I\u2019M JASON KYIV AND I\u2019M MEREDITH MCDONOUGH. LET\u2019S CHECK IN NOW WITH THE BREAKING TRAFFIC WITH FIRST WARNING TRAFFIC EXPERT MEAGHAN MACKEY. WE\u2019VE LEARNED A DEADLY CRASH FROM OVERNIGHT IS DEADLY. WE JUST GOT THAT CONFIRMATION. SO JOHN YOUNG PARKWAY THE NORTHBOUND LANES ONLY ARE SHUT DOWN HERE AT SHEA ROAD. THIS IS IN ORLANDO. YOU KNOW, JOHN YOUNG PARKWAY IS A MAJOR ROADWAY. A LOT OF PEOPLE USE. TRAFFIC IS GETTING BY IN THOSE SOUTHBOUND LANES. BUT IF YOU\u2019RE TRAVELING HERE NORTH OF SILVER STAR IN PRINCETON, IT IS SHUT DOWN RIGHT AT SHEA. THE ROAD ALL THE WAY TO O.B. T T IS THE BEST DETOUR FOR THAT MORNING DRIVE. AND AGAIN, THE TIME OF WHEN THOSE LANES ARE GOING TO REOPEN. SO SOME SAD NEWS THERE. DEADLY CRASH, NO CAMERA IN THAT AREA. SO NO EYES ON THAT CRASH. BUT THERE IS A SHUT DOWN THERE. I-4 THIS IS A LIVE LOOK IN DELTONA. THIS IS NEAR THE JACKSON BOULEVARD EXIT. SO FAR NO HEAVY CONGESTION THERE IN DOWNTOWN ORLANDO. SEEING THAT SUN START TO RISE, THOSE TRAVEL TIMES ARE STILL SITTING IN THE GREEN THIS MORNING. SO ASIDE FROM THE CRASH, WE ARE LOOKING PRETTY GOOD, INCLUDING ALON\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Deadly crash shuts down John Young Parkway northbound lanes, Orlando police say<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768911270_880_wesh.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WESH logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 7:05 AM EDT May 18, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Orlando Police Department is investigating a deadly crash that caused road closures along John Young Parkway in Orange County on Monday.The closure is affecting SR-423\/North John Young Parkway at Shader Road in Orlando.OPD said the incident was reported around 1:17 a.m. All northbound lanes are blocked, and drivers are being told to use an alternate route. The best detour is Orange Blossom Trail. No estimated time for reopening is available.  &gt;&gt; This is a developing story.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Orlando Police Department is investigating a deadly crash that caused road closures along John Young Parkway in Orange County on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The closure is affecting SR-423\/North John Young Parkway at Shader Road in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>OPD said the incident was reported around 1:17 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>All northbound lanes are blocked, and drivers are being told to use an alternate route. The best detour is Orange Blossom Trail. <\/p>\n<p>No estimated time for reopening is available.  <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; This is a developing story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deadly crash shuts down John Young Parkway northbound lanes, Orlando police say THIS TIME, IT\u2019S NOT JUST AN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[20798,90419,17208,658,117410,217,12744,1335,139,141,140,32353,8825,116760,70280,117411,9498],"class_list":["post-275016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-alternate-route","tag-estimated-time","tag-good-detour","tag-incident","tag-john-young-parkway-lane","tag-monday","tag-orange-blossom-trail","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-reopening","tag-road-closure","tag-shader-road","tag-specific-detail","tag-sr-423","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275016","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=275016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}