BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Two Fort Myers residents were killed and two Port Charlotte residents were injured in a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 75 in Broward County late Saturday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
FHP identified the people who died as an 18-year-old woman and a 29-year-old man, both from Fort Myers. Their names have not been released.<\/p>\n
The crash happened around 9:53 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, in the eastbound lanes of I-75, west of mile marker 45.<\/p>\n
According to FHP, the 18-year-old woman was driving a 2018 Toyota Camry eastbound in the outside lane when she lost control of the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Troopers said the Camry traveled off the roadway to the right and struck the rear of a 2014 Ford E-450 U-Haul truck that was parked on the paved shoulder.<\/p>\n
Following the initial collision, FHP said the Camry was redirected into the path of a 2019 BMW X5 traveling eastbound in the inside lane.<\/p>\n
The front left portion of the Camry struck the right side of the BMW, causing the SUV to travel northeast and overturn, according to troopers.<\/p>\n
FHP said the 18-year-old driver and her 29-year-old passenger were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
The BMW’s driver, a 19-year-old man from Port Charlotte, suffered minor injuries. His passenger, a 37-year-old woman from Port Charlotte, suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n
The driver of the U-Haul truck, a 40-year-old man from West Palm Beach, also suffered minor injuries, according to FHP.<\/p>\n
Troopers have not released additional information about what caused the driver to lose control of the Camry.<\/p>\n
The crash remains under investigation by the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Two Fort Myers residents were killed and two Port Charlotte residents were injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[173125,506,43242,209,211,210,4250,2675,28,618,173124,249,897,35986,12885,85636,173123,9097,719,14483,37897,4556],"class_list":["post-444374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-bmw-x5","tag-broward-county","tag-camry","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charlotte","tag-driver","tag-florida","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-ford-e-450","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-myers","tag-highway-patrol","tag-interstate-75","tag-interstate-75-in-florida","tag-napoleon-b-broward","tag-palm-beach","tag-patrol","tag-port-charlotte","tag-toyota-camry","tag-west-palm-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444374","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=444374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}