{"id":374030,"date":"2026-08-17T22:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374030\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:06:11","slug":"semi-car-crash-closes-highway-70-intersection-in-okeechobee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374030\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi, car crash closes Highway 70 intersection in Okeechobee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKEECHOBEE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A crash involving a semi and a car shut down an intersection along Highway 70 in Okeechobee County, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Okeechobee%20sheriff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Okeechobee County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at the intersection of Northeast 128th Avenue, also known as Berman Road or Posey\u2019s Corner, and Highway 70.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said the crash forced the intersection and surrounding roadways to close in both directions. Drivers were being turned around before reaching the closure.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities urged motorists to avoid the area entirely and use alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said additional updates would be provided as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKEECHOBEE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A crash involving a semi and a car shut down an intersection along&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-374030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374030","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=374030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}