{"id":62698,"date":"2025-11-27T14:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/62698\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:21:11","slug":"vehicle-crash-and-shooting-on-u-s-1-in-florida-leaves-2-injured-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/62698\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle crash and shooting on U.S. 1 in Florida leaves 2 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVideo above: Stolen car chase in Port St. Lucie ends with arrestThe Fort Pierce Police Department is investigating a shooting.The police department said Thursday at 2:30 a.m., it responded to the 1600 block of U.S. 1 after receiving reports of a vehicle crash.When officers arrived at the scene, they discovered a vehicle struck a concrete power pole and was engulfed in flames.The occupants of the vehicle were able to exit prior to the fire spreading.The police department was able to determine that while traveling southbound on U.S. 1, an unknown vehicle began shooting at the victim\u2019s car.Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 NewsThe driver sustained a gunshot wound, veered off the road, and struck the pole, which caused the vehicle to catch on fire.The police department said both victims were transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.The police do not have suspect information as of Thursday morning.The police department said U.S. 1 from Avenue O to Avenue M, in both directions, will be closed for several hours while crews work to repair the power pole.Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Fort Pierce Police Department at 772-467-6800 or Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-800-273-8477.This is a developing story and will be updated as information becomes available.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Video above: Stolen car chase in Port St. Lucie ends with arrest<\/p>\n

The Fort Pierce Police Department is investigating a shooting.<\/p>\n

The police department said Thursday at 2:30 a.m., it responded to the 1600 block of U.S. 1 after receiving reports of a vehicle crash.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived at the scene, they discovered a vehicle struck a concrete power pole and was engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n

The occupants of the vehicle were able to exit prior to the fire spreading.<\/p>\n

The police department was able to determine that while traveling southbound on U.S. 1, an unknown vehicle began shooting at the victim\u2019s car.<\/p>\n

Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 News<\/a><\/p>\n

The driver sustained a gunshot wound, veered off the road, and struck the pole, which caused the vehicle to catch on fire.<\/p>\n

The police department said both victims were transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

The police do not have suspect information as of Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

The police department said U.S. 1 from Avenue O to Avenue M, in both directions, will be closed for several hours while crews work to repair the power pole.<\/p>\n

Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Fort Pierce Police Department at 772-467-6800 or Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-800-273-8477.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story and will be updated as information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: Stolen car chase in Port St. Lucie ends with arrestThe Fort Pierce Police Department is investigating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[37795,37794,855,3886,675,677,1599,171,173,172,37793,1284,4494,732,16915,37792,6411,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-62698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-avenue-o","9":"tag-concrete-power-pole","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-fort-pierce","12":"tag-local-coverage","13":"tag-neighborhood","14":"tag-police-department","15":"tag-port-st-lucie","16":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","17":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","18":"tag-suspect-information","19":"tag-thursday","20":"tag-u-s","21":"tag-vehicle","22":"tag-vehicle-crash","23":"tag-vehicle-crash-and-shooting-on-u-s-1-in-fort-pierce-leaves-two-injured","24":"tag-victim","25":"tag-wpbf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62698","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=62698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}