MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A crash that killed two people on Florida’s Turnpike in Martin County closed all lanes in both directions for multiple hours on Monday afternoon, causing heavy delays.<\/p>\n
All lanes in both directions are now reopened.<\/p>\n
According to a post on the Martin County Fire Rescue Facebook page, the wreck happened near mile marker 132 at about 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
Florida’s Turnpike closed in Martin County after crash kills 2<\/p>\n
In addition to the two people killed in the wreck, firefighter-paramedics took one person with traumatic injuries by ground to the hospital.<\/p>\n
The Martin County Sheriff’s Office posted on its Facebook page at 3:49 p.m. that both northbound and southbound lanes of the Turnpike are completely shut down. <\/p>\n
“Expect traffic slowdowns for at least two to three hours,” the sheriff’s office said.<\/p>\n
Drivers are urged to use alternate routes.<\/p>\n
The cause of the crash has not been released.<\/p>\n
According to the sheriff’s office, this is the fifth traffic fatality in four days in Martin County. <\/p>\n
A Palm City man died overnight<\/a> after a two-vehicle crash on the Turnpike early Monday morning. Also, two people were killed in a head-on crash<\/a> Saturday morning on Allapattah Road in Indiantown. <\/p>\n Stay with WPTV.com and WPTV News for more details as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A crash that killed two people on Florida’s Turnpike in Martin County closed all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,7162,1160,179,5069,12758],"class_list":["post-324047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-floridas-turnpike","tag-martin-county","tag-treasure-coast","tag-turnpike","tag-wptv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324047","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=324047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}