{"id":338380,"date":"2026-07-13T13:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338380\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:28:14","slug":"vehicle-fire-shuts-down-northbound-lane-on-floridas-turnpike-in-indian-river-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338380\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle fire shuts down northbound lane on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in Indian River County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 A vehicle fire on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in Indian River County has forced the partial closure of northbound lanes Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported before Mile Marker 174 at 8:16 a.m. According to Florida 511, the fire was classified as a major traffic event affecting motorists traveling through the area.<\/p>\n<p>As of the latest Florida 511 update at 8:54 a.m., all northbound lanes remained closed while emergency crews responded to the scene. No information was immediately available regarding injuries or the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2999.jfif\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/352\/986\/0x21\/90\/4ba797d3-9ddc-4cef-9947-e80f92e89172-2999.jfif\"\/><\/p>\n<p>See also:<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/cbs12-news-i-team\/i-team-whats-legal-whos-liable-inside-south-floridas-growing-e-bike-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Inside South Florida&#8217;s e-bike boom: Crashes, confusion and consequences<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drivers are urged to avoid the area and seek alternate routes as crews work to clear the roadway and reopen traffic lanes.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A vehicle fire on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in Indian River County has forced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-338380","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\/338380","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=338380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}