FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A 55-year-old Punta Gorda man died after a six-vehicle crash at Six Mile Cypress Parkway and Daniels Parkway on Friday afternoon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
The crash happened around 3:51 p.m. when a 66-year-old Fort Myers Beach man driving a 2014 Chrysler Town and Country south on Six Mile Cypress Parkway possibly suffered a medical emergency, FHP said. Five vehicles were stopped in traffic at a red light at the intersection of Daniels Parkway.<\/p>\n
The front of the Chrysler collided with the rear of a 2023 Kia Forte, which caused a chain reaction crash.<\/p>\n
The 55-year-old driver of the Kia Forte was transported to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A 48-year-old woman and a 10-year-old boy, both passengers in the Kia, were also transported to the hospital with non-incapacitating injuries.<\/p>\n
The 66-year-old driver of the Chrysler was transported to the hospital with non-incapacitating injuries. The driver of a 2024 GMC Sierra, whose identification is pending, was also transported with minor injuries.<\/p>\n
No one in the other three vehicles involved in the crash was injured.<\/p>\n
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The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A 55-year-old Punta Gorda man died after a six-vehicle crash at Six Mile…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,7692,38979],"class_list":["post-418165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee-county-sheriff","tag-wink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418165","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=418165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}