{"id":293121,"date":"2026-06-02T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293121\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:47:10","slug":"car-bursts-into-flames-after-i-75-crash-in-charlotte-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293121\/","title":{"rendered":"Car bursts into flames after I-75 crash in Charlotte County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; A driver escaped serious injury Tuesday morning when his car burst into flames after colliding with a semi on I-75 in Charlotte County, the Florida Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 26-year-old man was driving a Toyota Corolla northbound in the right lane, just south of Tuckers Grade just before 5 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Toyota veered left, into a Volvo semitrailer in the center lane, investigators said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After colliding, the Toyota traveled off the roadway, entered the tree line and erupted into flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Troopers said the driver sustained minor injuries and was taken to a hospital. The driver of the semi was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A driver escaped serious injury Tuesday morning when his car burst into flames&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,4250,1776,2543,8566,123673],"class_list":["post-293121","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-crash","tag-flames","tag-i-75","tag-tuckers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293121","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=293121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}