{"id":451045,"date":"2026-02-05T19:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451045\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:16:07","slug":"breaking-fatal-crash-shuts-down-southbound-u-s-20-near-sugar-city-localnews8-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451045\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Fatal Crash Shuts Down Southbound U.S. 20 Near Sugar City &#8211; LocalNews8.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>REXBURG, Idaho (KIFI) \u2014 Madison County Sheriff&#8217;s Deputies are on the scene of a fatal crash near Sugar City, thats closed a portion of U.S. Highway 20. <\/p>\n<p>The crash took place near mile marker 339. According to a post on the Madison County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1323296186498810&amp;set=a.241661347995638\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>, all southbound traffic is completely closed.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies are telling drivers to expect significant delays for several hours as first responders work the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Local News 8 has a reporter at the scene of the crash. This is a developing story. We will provide updates as soon as more details are confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KIFI Local News 8 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/localnews8.com\/about-us\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/localnews8.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REXBURG, Idaho (KIFI) \u2014 Madison County Sheriff&#8217;s Deputies are on the scene of a fatal crash near Sugar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-451045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}