{"id":287357,"date":"2026-05-28T10:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287357\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:16:10","slug":"crash-closes-several-lanes-on-floridas-turnpike-in-leesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287357\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash closes several lanes on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in Leesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA crash has closed a couple of the southbound lanes on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in Leesburg.According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash happened around 4:45 early Thursday morning just before the US-27 exit.Troopers say people were injured in the crash.Two of the right lanes are blocked traveling southbound but drivers are getting by in the left lane.This is a developing story.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tLEESBURG, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A crash has closed a couple of the southbound lanes on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in Leesburg.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash happened around 4:45 early Thursday morning just before the US-27 exit.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers say people were injured in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the right lanes are blocked traveling southbound but drivers are getting by in the left lane.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash has closed a couple of the southbound lanes on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in Leesburg.According to the Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23829,1776,2675,101496,11759,28,30,618,29,3684,23854,992,29320,115121,9498,8774,5069],"class_list":["post-287357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-couple","tag-crash","tag-driver","tag-early-thursday-morning","tag-exit","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-florida-news","tag-leesburg","tag-left-lane","tag-people","tag-right-lane","tag-several-lane","tag-story","tag-trooper","tag-turnpike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287357","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=287357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}