{"id":322238,"date":"2026-06-28T02:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322238\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T02:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:18:09","slug":"1-person-killed-after-car-hits-semi-truck-on-i-75-in-charlotte-county-charlotte-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322238\/","title":{"rendered":"1 person killed after car hits semi-truck on I-75 in Charlotte County | Charlotte County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A crash on\u00a0northbound Interstate 75 at Mile Marker 161 left one person dead Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the wreck happened at 3:02 p.m. Saturday in Charlotte County.<\/p>\n<p>A 2013 Chevrolet Tahoe was heading north on I-75 when it entered the painted gore area near the Exit 161 ramp to Jones Loop Road and struck the rear of a stopped semi-truck trailer.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-truck was disabled in the gore area at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Tahoe was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities say positive identification is still pending.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-truck driver, a 45-year-old man from Saint Cloud, Florida, suffered non-incapacitating injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol says the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"car crash into walmart truck charlotte county\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>WINK News reporter Hunter Walterman is on the scene, gathering the latest information.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A crash on\u00a0northbound Interstate 75 at Mile Marker 161 left one person dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,853],"class_list":["post-322238","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-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322238","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=322238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}