{"id":392879,"date":"2026-09-07T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392879\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:18:08","slug":"deadly-labor-day-crash-closes-floridas-turnpike-near-okeechobee-road-in-fort-pierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392879\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Labor Day crash closes Florida\u2019s Turnpike near Okeechobee Road in Fort Pierce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stluciesheriff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Lucie County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a> is investigating a deadly traffic crash near mile marker 166 on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in Fort Pierce on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>SLCSO said that due to the crash investigation, both the northbound and southbound lanes of the Turnpike are closed at Okeechobee Road. The sheriff&#8217;s office said motorists should avoid the area and seek alternative routes. <\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/prime-air-cargo-plane-overruns-runway-catches-fire-at-miami-international-airport-mia-prime-air-prime-air-flight-7598-cargo-plane-plane-crash-runway-overrun-miami-airport-crash-miami-plane-crash-cargo-plane-fire-aircraft-fire-airplane-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">5 killed after Amazon cargo plane overruns runway Miami International Airport<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol is at the scene investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash. SLCSO is assisting with traffic control. <\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash has not yet been determined. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The St. Lucie County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating a deadly traffic crash near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-392879","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\/392879","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=392879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}