{"id":393257,"date":"2026-09-08T00:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T00:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393257\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T00:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T00:54:14","slug":"1-northbound-lane-reopens-on-floridas-turnpike-after-fatal-st-lucie-county-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393257\/","title":{"rendered":"1 northbound lane reopens on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike after fatal St. Lucie County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">One northbound lane of Florida&#8217;s Turnpike has reopened in St. Lucie County following a crash that killed a 66-year-old Miami man Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said only the left northbound lane is open near mile marker 166 in the Fort Pierce area. Drivers should continue to expect delays as the remaining lanes are closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash was reported at approximately 8:15 a.m., according to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">FHP said the 66-year-old man was driving a 2027 Freightliner M2 box truck north in the outside lane when, for reasons still under investigation, the truck partially entered the outside paved shoulder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The truck then re-entered the travel lanes and overturned before hitting a guardrail along the outside shoulder. The truck came to rest on its roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:43 a.m. His identity has not been released, but FHP said his next of kin has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A 31-year-old Miami man who was a passenger in the truck was flown to HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce. He was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">FHP&#8217;s Traffic Homicide Investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One northbound lane of Florida&#8217;s Turnpike has reopened in St. Lucie County following a crash that killed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-393257","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\/393257","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=393257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}