{"id":317158,"date":"2026-06-23T19:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317158\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:17:13","slug":"fatal-crash-shuts-down-floridas-turnpike-in-osceola-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317158\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crash shuts down Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in Osceola County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFlorida&#8217;s Turnpike is shut down at Mile Marker 240 southbound after a fatal crash, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.The St. Cloud Police Department said roads are closed to allow Orlando Health&#8217;s Air Care Team to land on the highway.Florida Highway Patrol, St. Cloud Fire Rescue and Osceola County Fire Rescue and EMS are also on the scene. Police are urging drivers to proceed with caution near first responders. A law enforcement vehicle was on its way to the scene and was involved in a separate crash. There were no injuries involved in this crash that happened on the northbound side, FHP said.WESH 2 has reached out for more information regarding the fatal crash.&gt;&gt; This is a developing story.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tOSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s Turnpike is shut down at Mile Marker 240 southbound after a fatal crash, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Cloud Police Department said roads are closed to allow Orlando Health&#8217;s Air Care Team to land on the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Highway Patrol, St. Cloud Fire Rescue and Osceola County Fire Rescue and EMS are also on the scene. <\/p>\n<p>Police are urging drivers to proceed with caution near first responders. <\/p>\n<p>A law enforcement vehicle was on its way to the scene and was involved in a separate crash. There were no injuries involved in this crash that happened on the northbound side, FHP said.<\/p>\n<p>WESH 2 has reached out for more information regarding the fatal crash.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"turnpike crash\" title=\"Turnpike crash \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c952225e-edc6-43d6-9ed6-3721f87ab802.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"turnpike crash\" title=\"Turnpike crash \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8456d08b-9464-403d-a6b4-2a7145730652.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"turnpike crash\" title=\"Turnpike crash \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/58b3c156-6ba8-41a0-b529-52a30015db6e.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Facebook.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida&#8217;s Turnpike is shut down at Mile Marker 240 southbound after a fatal crash, according to the Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5506,29714,28951,2675,2337,6431,28,618,29306,139,141,140,1976,132,725,101990,46654,5069],"class_list":["post-317158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-caution","tag-chopper","tag-direction","tag-driver","tag-fatal-crash","tag-first-responder","tag-florida","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-mile-marker","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-osceola-county","tag-police","tag-scene","tag-st-cloud-fire-rescue","tag-st-cloud-police-department","tag-turnpike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317158","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=317158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}