{"id":372061,"date":"2026-08-15T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372061\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:00:09","slug":"one-dead-after-crash-on-sr-80-near-buckingham-road-in-lee-county-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372061\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after crash on SR 80 near Buckingham Road in Lee County | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (WINK)\u2014One person is dead following a two-vehicle crash on State Road 80 near Buckingham Road.<\/p>\n<p>The crash involved a small white car and a white work van, which ended up in a ditch. The Florida Highway Patrol confirmed the fatality.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses at nearby businesses said they heard a loud bang and ran out to try and help. They told WINK News an off-duty paramedic also tried to help the person who died.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the afternoon, one lane of westbound traffic was blocked off. Traffic has since begun to flow better at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (WINK)\u2014One person is dead following a two-vehicle crash on State Road 80 near Buckingham Road.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":["post-372061","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-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372061","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=372061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}