{"id":385977,"date":"2026-08-31T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385977\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:44:10","slug":"deadly-crash-shuts-down-stretch-of-colonial-drive-in-east-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385977\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly crash shuts down stretch of Colonial Drive in east Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deadly crash shuts down stretch of Colonial Drive in east Orlando<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/news-team\/e7bde123-d3e0-4384-807b-b9f060165f84\" aria-label=\"Meaghan Mackey profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788173050_495_e7bde123-d3e0-4384-807b-b9f060165f84_1776280999.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Meaghan Mackey\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A deadly crash has shut down a stretch of Colonial Drive (SR-50) in east Orlando.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash happened around 10:30 on Sunday night at Sherman Street.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Drivers traveling east on Colonial Drive towards Lockwood should use Lake Pickett Road as a detour.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Troopers are investigating what led to the deadly crash.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">As of 5 a.m., the eastbound side of Colonial Drive is still shut down.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">WESH 2 has reached out to FHP for more information.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deadly crash shuts down stretch of Colonial Drive in east Orlando ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 A deadly crash has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[16525,7375,15468,2675,154677,112614,618,154680,154679,4546,139,141,140,154678,103595,46408,12978,8774,918],"class_list":["post-385977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-colonial-drive","tag-deadly-crash","tag-detour","tag-driver","tag-east-orlando","tag-eastbound-side","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-lake-pickett-road","tag-lockwood","tag-more-information","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-sherman-street","tag-sr-50","tag-stretch","tag-sunday-night","tag-trooper","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385977","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=385977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}