{"id":378066,"date":"2026-08-22T03:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378066\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T03:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:50:13","slug":"traffic-lights-out-part-of-gum-branch-road-closed-after-jacksonville-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378066\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic lights out, part of Gum Branch Road closed after Jacksonville crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A crash has closed part of a road in Jacksonville, knocking out power in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jacksonville police say a car hit a utility pole near Gum Branch Road and Western Boulevard Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Traffic lights at the intersection are not working, and police say poles are down and utility lines are low-hanging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gum Branch Road is temporarily closed south of Western Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Northbound drivers are being sent onto New Frontier Way, while southbound traffic is being routed onto Western Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police are asking drivers to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. JACKSONVILLE, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[152052,2620,116,118,117,15668,713,715,4481,152053,1854,38772,14330,5592,729,129682,4480],"class_list":["post-378066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-gum-branch-road","tag-intersection","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-police-department","tag-light","tag-lights","tag-nc","tag-new-frontier-way","tag-north-carolina","tag-outage","tag-outages","tag-power","tag-traffic","tag-western-boulevard","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378066","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=378066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}