{"id":427739,"date":"2026-10-14T16:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427739\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:40:30","slug":"midpoint-bridge-reopens-after-early-morning-crash-closes-cape-coral-road-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427739\/","title":{"rendered":"Midpoint Bridge reopens after early morning crash closes Cape Coral road | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 A crash on the Midpoint Bridge briefly shut down a major roadway in Cape Coral early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Cape Coral Fire Department, Engine 3 and Rescue 3 responded to a single-vehicle crash on the eastbound Midpoint Bridge at 5:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"cape coral fire engine\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The driver only suffered minor injuries and did not need to be taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans Memorial Parkway was shut down east of Del Prado Blvd while Florida Department of Transportation crews made repairs, with all traffic diverted during that time.<\/p>\n<p>The road reopened at 8:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"- 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 A crash on the Midpoint Bridge briefly shut down a major roadway in Cape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":["post-427739","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-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427739","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=427739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}