{"id":373974,"date":"2026-08-17T20:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373974\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:40:18","slug":"5-hospitalized-after-car-carrier-truck-and-motorcycle-collide-on-turnpike-in-lauderhill-followed-by-onlooker-crash-fires-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373974\/","title":{"rendered":"5 hospitalized after car carrier truck and motorcycle collide on Turnpike in Lauderhill, followed by onlooker crash, fires &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LAUDERHILL, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A tractor trailer crash along the Florida Turnpike in Lauderhill and a second separate crash sent five people to the hospital, set several vehicles ablaze and caused major traffic trouble, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lauderhill Fire Rescue and Florida Highway Patrol units were dispatched to the scene of a tractor trailer fire on the southbound lanes of the Turnpike between Oakland Park Boulevard and Sunrise Boulevard, Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several other departments joined to assist, including Tamarac Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Tamarac Fire Rescue, the fire started after a crash involving a vehicle hauler and a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time of the crash, the hauler was loaded with nine vehicles, six of which caught on fire, with two of those being electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five people were taken to local area hospitals. Two of those were from a separate onlooker accident in the northbound lanes, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crews were able to extinguish the flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most southbound lanes were shut down for hours as detectives worked to determine what led up to the crash. They have since reopened to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAUDERHILL, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A tractor trailer crash along the Florida Turnpike in Lauderhill and a second separate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-373974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373974","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=373974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}