{"id":93682,"date":"2025-12-23T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/93682\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:40:09","slug":"florida-turnpike-crash-closes-all-northbound-lanes-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/93682\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Turnpike crash closes all northbound lanes. What we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A crash on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike has closed all northbound lanes Tuesday morning, Dec. 23, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash marks the second day in a row a major state highway has been closed, disrupting traffic as holiday travelers hit the road days before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/2025\/12\/22\/fatal-crash-closes-i95-mims-brevard-county-florida-what-we-know\/87885107007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:crash in northern Brevard County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> crash in northern Brevard County<\/a> closed all northbound lanes on Interstate 95 for about six hours Monday, Dec. 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here&#8217;s what we know about today&#8217;s crash.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Turnpike crash with injuries reported Dec. 23<img alt=\"A crash on the Florida Turnpike Dec. 23, 2025, closes all northbound lanes in Osceola County near Kissimmee.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"352\" height=\"240\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dfe19e25039b8c72a646dd0a383e49bf.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A crash on the Florida Turnpike Dec. 23, 2025, closes all northbound lanes in Osceola County near Kissimmee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A crash with injuries was reported at 6 a.m. Dec. 23 on the Florida Turnpike in Osceola County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol&#8217;s incident map.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash is in the northbound lanes at mile marker 245 in Kissimmee.<\/p>\n<p>Northbound lanes closed on Florida Turnpike<img alt=\"A crash on the Florida Turnpike Dec. 23, 2025, closes all northbound lanes in Osceola County near Kissimmee.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"352\" height=\"240\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/5cf95abe4652b829420f489f10144c59.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A crash on the Florida Turnpike Dec. 23, 2025, closes all northbound lanes in Osceola County near Kissimmee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All northbound lanes on the Turnpike are closed in the area of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The FHP encourages motorists to seek alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>Fatal crash closed I-95 for hours Dec. 22, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Just after 9 a.m. Monday, Dec. 22, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/2025\/12\/22\/fhp-one-person-dead-one-seriously-injured-in-brevard-crash-on-i-95\/87882736007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:crash involving a tractor-trailer killed one person;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">crash involving a tractor-trailer killed one person<\/a> and seriously injured another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash happened just after 9 a.m. near mile marker 228 near Mims after a tractor-trailer ran into the back of a &#8220;CMTI MOT truck,&#8221; displaying a message board about a vehicle fire ahead, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u27a4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/2025\/12\/22\/fhp-one-person-dead-one-seriously-injured-in-brevard-crash-on-i-95\/87882736007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:One person dead, one seriously injured after Mims crash on I-95;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">One person dead, one seriously injured after Mims crash on I-95<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the CMTI truck was pronounced dead at the scene, while a passenger in the truck received serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured, the FHP said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All northbound lanes of I-95 remained closed until about 3 p.m. Monday, about six hours after the crash occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Peak Christmas travel period is here<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crashes come during the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/christmas-florida-best-worst-times-drive\/87697954007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u00a0peak travel period for the Christmas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u00a0peak travel period for the Christmas<\/a>\u00a0season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">AAA estimated 7.5 million Floridians will be visiting family, going to vacation destinations or just getting away at least 50 miles from their homes between Dec. 20 and Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/news\/2025\/12\/23\/turnpike-accident-today-florida-osceola-kissimmee\/87893408007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida Turnpike crash closes northbound lanes in Osceola County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Florida Turnpike crash closes northbound lanes in Osceola County<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike has closed all northbound lanes Tuesday morning, Dec. 23, according to the Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7169,28,30,618,29,44287],"class_list":{"0":"post-93682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-crash-involving","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-highway-patrol","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-northbound-lanes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93682","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=93682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}