{"id":330146,"date":"2026-07-05T20:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330146\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:11:08","slug":"southbound-floridas-turnpike-shut-down-due-to-police-activity-car-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330146\/","title":{"rendered":"Southbound Florida&#8217;s Turnpike shut down due to police activity, car fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A section of Florida\u2019s Turnpike is shut down Sunday afternoon after police activity and a vehicle fire prompted multiple lane and ramp closures in Palm Beach County.<\/p>\n<p>According to Florida 511, all southbound lanes are closed from Exit 107 (S.R. 710\/Bee Line Highway) to before Mile Marker 103 because of a vehicle fire.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic alerts also show police activity between Exit 107 and the ramp to Exit 99 (Okeechobee Boulevard\/S.R. 704), with all southbound lanes closed in the area.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/one-killed-another-airlifted-after-fiery-crash-at-indiantown-intersection-driver-killed-indiantown-crash-martin-county-crash-fatal-crash-fiery-crash-two-vehicle-crash-overnight-crash-southwest-warfield-boulevard-southwest-fox-brown-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">One killed, another airlifted after fiery crash at Indiantown intersection<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several ramps are also shut down, including:<\/p>\n<p>The on-ramp at Exit 107 (S.R. 710\/Bee Line Highway)The ramp from Exit 107The ramp from Exit 99 (Okeechobee Boulevard\/S.R. 704)The ramp to Exit 99 (Okeechobee Boulevard\/S.R. 704)<\/p>\n<p>The latest traffic update was issued at 3:36 p.m. Authorities also reported a Road Ranger is on scene and is reminding drivers to move over or slow down.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether the vehicle fire and police activity are connected. Officials have not released additional details, and it is unknown when the roadway will reopen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A section of Florida\u2019s Turnpike is shut down Sunday afternoon after police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-330146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330146","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=330146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}