{"id":420681,"date":"2026-10-06T23:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420681\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T23:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:00:15","slug":"southbound-florida-turnpike-slowed-after-crash-in-sumter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420681\/","title":{"rendered":"Southbound Florida Turnpike slowed after crash in Sumter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791327615_215_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Brandon Hogan\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Southbound lanes of the Florida Turnpike were shut down Tuesday afternoon in Sumter County due to a crash, according to the Florida Department of Transportation. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Only the leftmost southbound lane was still blocked as of 6:15 p.m. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The shutdown was in place between Okahumpka and Wildwood, from before mile marker 303 to before mile marker 299, according to FL511. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The crash occurred before 4:45 p.m., FDOT&#8217;s FL511 website states. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Nothing more had been shared with or confirmed by WESH 2 News at the time of this report. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">&gt;&gt; This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Southbound lanes of the Florida Turnpike were shut down Tuesday afternoon in Sumter County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1776,29460,2345,137585,28,7877,30,29,29306,166115,2451,1181,6729,166114,11715,1798,918,17139],"class_list":["post-420681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crash","tag-emergency-vehicle","tag-fdot","tag-fl511-website-state","tag-florida","tag-florida-department","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-mile-marker","tag-okahumpka","tag-p-m","tag-place","tag-shutdown","tag-southbound-florida-turnpike","tag-sumter","tag-transportation","tag-wesh","tag-wildwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420681","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=420681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}