LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A multi-vehicle crash involving a semi-truck shut down multiple lanes at the intersection of Six Mile Cypress Parkway and Metro Parkway this evening, according to South Trail Fire & Rescue.<\/p>\n
Firefighters and Lee County EMS worked together to assess patients, provide medical care and secure the scene, the fire department said. Multiple lanes remained closed during the response.<\/p>\n
One patient was transported to a local hospital. All other involved parties were evaluated on scene and declined transport, according to the release.<\/p>\n
“Crashes can happen in an instant,” South Trail Fire & Rescue said. “Please drive alert, avoid distractions, leave and always wear your seatbelt.”<\/p>\n
The fire department emphasized that the safest trip is one that ends with everyone getting home safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A multi-vehicle crash involving a semi-truck shut down multiple lanes at the intersection of Six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,5990,28,25994],"class_list":["post-350889","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-firefighter","tag-florida","tag-traffic-collision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350889","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=350889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}