{"id":333521,"date":"2026-07-08T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333521\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:30:08","slug":"southbound-lane-reopens-on-floridas-turnpike-near-the-villages-after-vehicle-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333521\/","title":{"rendered":"Southbound lane reopens on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike near The Villages after vehicle fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA vehicle fire temporarily forced all southbound lanes of Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in Sumter County to shut down near The Villages  on WednesdayThe closure was before mile marker 303 and was first reported around 3:44 p.m., according to the Florida Department of Transportation. The leftmost southbound lane had reopened by 4:30 p.m.The vehicle fire had been put out by the time of this writing, traffic cameras show.&gt;&gt; This is a developing story will be updated as more information is released\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSUMTER COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A vehicle fire forced all southbound lanes of Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in Sumter County to shut down near The Villages  on Wednesday, according to the Florida Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The closure was before mile marker 303 and was first reported around 3:44 p.m., FDOT&#8217;s FL511 website states.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle fire had been put out by the time of this writing, traffic cameras show.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle fire temporarily forced all southbound lanes of Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in Sumter County to shut down near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2456,2345,137585,28,30,29,29306,4546,29346,3315,137586,1798,5069,23850,31532,2486,14488],"class_list":["post-333521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-closure","tag-fdot","tag-fl511-website-state","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-mile-marker","tag-more-information","tag-southbound-lane","tag-sumter-county","tag-traffic-camera-show","tag-transportation","tag-turnpike","tag-vehicle-fire","tag-villages","tag-wednesday","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333521","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=333521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}