{"id":62271,"date":"2025-11-27T02:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/62271\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T02:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:17:09","slug":"man-dies-in-crash-on-us-41-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/62271\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in crash on US 41 | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 32-year-old man has died following an early morning crash on US 41.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Highway Patrol said the victim, who was driving an SUV, was heading north on US 41 on Wednesday morning, following a dump truck near Whispering Pine Way.<\/p>\n<p>FHP said the dump truck, which was being driven by a 38-year-old, was following a street sweeper at a slow rate of speed when the SUV slammed into the rear of the dump truck.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said the SUV\u2019s driver was critically injured and died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed for a while as troopers investigated the crash, but it has reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 32-year-old man has died following an early morning crash on US 41. Florida Highway Patrol said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,618,4571],"class_list":["post-62271","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-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62271","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=62271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}