{"id":432424,"date":"2026-10-19T22:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432424\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:40:07","slug":"deadly-hit-and-run-in-fort-myers-forces-road-closure-at-colonial-blvd-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432424\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly hit-and-run in Fort Myers forces road closure at Colonial Blvd | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014\u00a0Fort Myers Police are looking into a fatal hit-and-run crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian at Colonial Boulevard and Plantation Road.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Deadly hit-and-run in Fort Myers forces road closure at Colonial Blvd\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"633\" height=\"280\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Both northbound and southbound lanes at the intersection remain shut down for an undetermined amount of time, and police are advising drivers to find alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not released any information about the victim involved in the crash. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014\u00a0Fort Myers Police are looking into a fatal hit-and-run crash involving a vehicle and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115,729],"class_list":["post-432424","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","tag-news","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432424","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=432424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}