{"id":293038,"date":"2026-06-02T13:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293038\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:04:17","slug":"1-injured-after-crash-leads-to-vehicle-fire-on-i-75-in-charlotte-county-charlotte-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293038\/","title":{"rendered":"1 injured after crash leads to vehicle fire on I-75 in Charlotte County | Charlotte County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A 26-year-old\u00a0Land O&#8217; Lakes man sustained minor injuries after his Toyota Corolla collided with a semi-truck and burst into flames early Tuesday morning on I-75.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at 4:52 a.m. on northbound I-75 near mile marker 156, south of Tucker&#8217;s Grade, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said the driver was traveling in the right lane when his vehicle veered left into the middle lane.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"I-75 Car Fire\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the front of the Toyota then collided with the back trailer portion of a Volvo semi-truck driven by a 54-year-old Tampa man. After the collision, the Toyota veered right, traveled off the roadway, and entered the woods before erupting into flames.<\/p>\n<p>The Toyota driver was transported to an area hospital with minor injuries. The semi-truck driver was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>FHP is investigating the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A 26-year-old\u00a0Land O&#8217; Lakes man sustained minor injuries after his Toyota Corolla collided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,4250,115],"class_list":["post-293038","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","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293038","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=293038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}