A deadly crash in Brevard County shut down Interstate 95 in both directions for part of Monday morning with northbound lanes only reopening after six hours.<\/p>\n
Florida Highway Patrol said the crash occurred at about 9:04 a.m. in the northbound lanes of I-95 near mile marker 228 in Mims.<\/p>\n
It involved a 2007 tractor trailer driving north in the outside lane that struck a CMTI truck that was parked in the outside lane with its arrow board and lights activated to warn approaching drivers of a vehicle fire incident ahead.<\/p>\n
FHP stated the semi driver failed to slow or move over for the CMTI truck and struck its rear causing both vehicles to collide with the outside shoulder guardrail.<\/p>\n
The male adult driver of the CMTI truck was pronounced dead at the scene while a 42-year-old St. Cloud man who was a passenger in the truck was airlifted to Lake Monroe Hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n
The tractor trailer driver, a 63-year-old Orlando man, remained on the scene without injuries.<\/p>\n
The accident scene and responding vehicles created a roadblock for both southbound and northbound lanes. Northbound traffic was being diverted at State Road 46 until just after 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
Southbound traffic had also been detoured at County Road 5-A at mile marker 231, but all lanes of southbound traffic opened up by 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deadly crash in Brevard County shut down Interstate 95 in both directions for part of Monday morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,266,115,139,141,140,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-94736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-orlando","12":"tag-orlando-headlines","13":"tag-orlando-news","14":"tag-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94736","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=94736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}