{"id":61549,"date":"2025-11-26T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/61549\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:37:09","slug":"estero-man-killed-in-crash-on-tamiami-trail-troopers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/61549\/","title":{"rendered":"Estero man killed in crash on Tamiami Trail, troopers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 Florida Highway Patrol said a 32-year-old man died in a crash early Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Just before 3 a.m., troopers said a dump truck was slowly following a street sweeper vehicle on south Tamiami Trail near Whispering Pine Way. <\/p>\n<p>FHP said an SUV, behind the dump truck, crashed into the back of it. Deputies at the scene told Fox 4 that the truck had its hazard lights on. <\/p>\n<p>Watch Fort Myers Community Correspondent Miyoshi Price&#8217;s report:<\/p>\n<p>Major crash closes northbound lanes on South Tamiami Trail in Fort Myers<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the SUV, a 32-year-old man from Estero, was rushed to the hospital where he later died. <\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 Florida Highway Patrol said a 32-year-old man died in a crash early Wednesday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,618,897,14266,899,37128,264,37129,7692,266,37130],"class_list":["post-61549","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-florida-highway-patrol","tag-fort-myers","tag-fort-myers-crash","tag-fort-myers-metro-south-florida","tag-fort-myers-news","tag-fox-4","tag-lee-county-news","tag-lee-county-sheriff","tag-local-news","tag-whispering-pine-way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61549","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=61549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}