{"id":338487,"date":"2026-07-13T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338487\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:19:12","slug":"operation-southern-slowdown-returns-aims-to-reduce-dangerous-driving-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338487\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Operation Southern Slowdown&#8217; returns; aims to reduce dangerous driving | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and the Florida Department of Transportation announced the return of &#8216;Operation Southern Slowdown&#8217; on Monday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Operation Sothern Slowdown is a collaboration between FDOT and LCSO to slow down dangerous drivers and raise awareness of the dangers of speeding.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">LCSO emphasized the importance of slowing down and following the rules of the road, noting that excessive speed is among the leading causes of crashes and fatalities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Operation Sothern Slowdown\u00a0ends on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Watch the entire news conference live at the link above.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and the Florida Department of Transportation announced the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-338487","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-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338487","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=338487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}