{"id":348099,"date":"2026-07-22T02:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348099\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T02:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:28:29","slug":"fatal-crash-in-ocoee-forces-closure-of-clarke-road-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348099\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crash in Ocoee forces closure of Clarke Road, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tClarke Road was shut down Tuesday night in Ocoee due to a fatal crash, according to police and firefighters.&gt;&gt;Video above: Previous coverage of serious crash in Ocoee The road was shut down in both directions between Edinborough Place and A.D. Mims Road, the Ocoee Police Department said around 9:26 p.m. on social media. Bluford Avenue and Johio Shores Road are good alternate routes, the post states. According to an update from Ocoee fire department Deputy Chief Charles Van Camp, the crash involved four vehicles \u2014 one of which had flipped on its side \u2014 and eight total patients. The female driver of one vehicle was reported dead on arrival and two people who were entrapped were taken to the trauma center, with four others taken to local hospitals, Van Camp said in a statement.WESH 2 News has a crew at the scene of the crash.&gt;&gt; This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released A previous version of this story incorrectly described Charles Van Camp as being deputy chief of the Ocoee Police Department.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tOCOEE, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Clarke Road was shut down Tuesday night in Ocoee due to a fatal crash, according to police and firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;Video above: Previous coverage of serious crash in Ocoee <\/p>\n<p>The road was shut down in both directions between Edinborough Place and A.D. Mims Road, the Ocoee Police Department said around 9:26 p.m. on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ocoeepd\/posts\/pfbid02kQSdVHHQbotoRWsLxMoc4FdEC2nyRJL9RMkMXv9mnYKJkw31Ls7LW28axWm1HksHl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social media<\/a>. Bluford Avenue and Johio Shores Road are good alternate routes, the post states. <\/p>\n<p>According to an update from Ocoee fire department Deputy Chief Charles Van Camp, the crash involved four vehicles \u2014 one of which had flipped on its side \u2014 and eight total patients. <\/p>\n<p>The female driver of one vehicle was reported dead on arrival and two people who were entrapped were taken to the trauma center, with four others taken to local hospitals, Van Camp said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>WESH 2 News has a crew at the scene of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Facebook.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released <\/p>\n<p>A previous version of this story incorrectly described Charles Van Camp as being deputy chief of the Ocoee Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clarke Road was shut down Tuesday night in Ocoee due to a fatal crash, according to police and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[142471,142468,142473,142472,142470,115,142469,28949,139,141,140,2451,132,113273,20770,21275,732,918],"class_list":["post-348099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-bluford-avenue","tag-clarke-road","tag-edinborough-place","tag-good-alternate-route","tag-johio-shores-road","tag-news","tag-ocoee-force-closure","tag-ocoee-police-department","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-p-m","tag-police","tag-post-state","tag-serious-crash","tag-social-medium","tag-vehicle","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348099","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=348099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}