{"id":433072,"date":"2026-10-20T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433072\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:10:10","slug":"floridas-turnpike-blocked-in-st-lucie-county-after-truck-fire-separate-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433072\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida&#8217;s Turnpike blocked in St. Lucie County after truck fire, separate crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A truck fire and a separate crash are causing major traffic disruptions on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in St. Lucie County Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A truck fire was reported just before 8 a.m. in the southbound lanes near mile marker 161, approximately nine miles south of the Okeechobee Road\/State Road 70 exit.<\/p>\n<p>After one southbound lane reopened shortly before 9 a.m., traffic officials reported a separate crash in the same area that forced the roadway to close again just after 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792509010_245_.png\" alt=\"Crash turnpike\"  width=\"1083\" height=\"652\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FL511<\/p>\n<p>Details about the crash, including how many vehicles were involved and whether anyone was injured, have not been released.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also unclear what caused the truck fire or whether anyone was hurt in that incident. WPTV has reached out to the Florida Highway Patrol for additional information.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are urged to seek alternate routes and expect significant delays in the area.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated as more details become available and lanes reopen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A truck fire and a separate crash are causing major traffic disruptions on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[855,171,173,172,5069],"class_list":["post-433072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-fire","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-turnpike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433072","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=433072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}