{"id":85179,"date":"2025-12-16T12:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85179\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:09:19","slug":"fatal-motorcycle-crash-on-us-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85179\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal motorcycle crash on US 41"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A motorcyclist was killed in a crash on U.S. 41, near Elkham Boulevard, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Florida Highway Patrol, at 1:45 a.m. on Dec. 14, a motorcycle was traveling northbound on U.S. 41 at a high rate of speed as it approached Elkham Boulevard. A car traveling southbound on U.S. 41 attempted to turn left onto Elkham Boulevard and turned in front of the motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2025\/12\/12\/sheriffs-office-makes-final-ruling-mans-death-epic-universe-roller-coaster\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2025\/12\/12\/sheriffs-office-makes-final-ruling-mans-death-epic-universe-roller-coaster\/\">Sheriff\u2019s office makes final ruling in man\u2019s death on Epic Universe roller coaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The front of the motorcycle struck the side of the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The motorcyclist sustained serious injuries and was transported to a local hospital\u2014 and was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver of the car reported minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A motorcyclist was killed in a crash on U.S. 41, near Elkham Boulevard,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,46759,46758,4228],"class_list":{"0":"post-85179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-charlotte-county-crash","12":"tag-crash-on-us-41","13":"tag-motorcycle-crash"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85179","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=85179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}