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Cape Coral crash knocks down utility pole, flips SUV<\/p>\n

\"CarsonCAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

A crash involving two SUVs knocked down a utility pole and caused one vehicle to flip on Diplomat Parkway East in Cape Coral Wednesday night. <\/p>\n

According to a Cape Coral police officer on the scene, the crash happened around 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

The incident shut down westbound lanes while crews worked to clear the scene. Lee County Electric Cooperative has removed the damaged pole. Minor injuries were reported in the crash.<\/p>\n

The cause and details of the crash are not yet known. Count on Gulf Coast News to keep you updated.<\/p>\n

DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Coral crash knocks down utility pole, flips SUV CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 A crash involving two SUVs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[690,1185,209,8522,211,210,212,33204,1776,146091,104,149871,28,4329,658,213,356,119473,2451,87959,8825,725,197,9644,149869,144200,16159,149870,16915,221,4335,29337,38079],"class_list":["post-370334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-accident","tag-alert","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-crash","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cape-coral-police","tag-cause","tag-crash","tag-diplomat-parkway-east","tag-entertainment","tag-flipped-suv","tag-florida","tag-gulf-coast-news","tag-incident","tag-late-news","tag-lee-county","tag-lee-county-electric-cooperative","tag-p-m","tag-power-pole","tag-road-closure","tag-scene","tag-sport","tag-suv","tag-suv-crash","tag-telephone-pole","tag-traffic-crash","tag-two-suvs","tag-vehicle-crash","tag-weather","tag-wednesday-night","tag-westbound-lane","tag-westbound-lanes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370334","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=370334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}