{"id":51133,"date":"2025-07-31T23:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/51133\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T23:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:07:20","slug":"crash-closes-i-540-west-near-leesville-road-in-wake-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/51133\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash closes I-540 West near Leesville Road in Wake County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/17379860\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WTVD logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/origin-wtvd.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 31, 2025 9:26PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Deadly crash closes I-540 West near Leesville Road in Wake County\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One person died in a two-car crash on I-540 that is expected to close the roadway for hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) &#8212; A deadly crash has shut down Interstate 540 West in Wake County near Leesville Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Raleigh Police told ABC11 that two cars were involved in the crash. One person was killed. There were no other injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One car went off the roadway and crashed into a wooded area off the shoulder.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/17380026_073125-wtvd-540-clean-5p-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The North Carolina Department of Transportation said the road was closed near Exit 7 just after 4:45 p.m. Thursday. I-540 was not expected to reopen until some time after 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Drivers should avoid the area if possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The RPD Crash Reconstruction Unit is working on an investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stay on top of breaking news stories with the ABC11 News App<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WTVD-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, July 31, 2025 9:26PM One person died in a two-car crash on I-540 that is expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[39432,4,450,451,3,3698,452,453],"class_list":["post-51133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-39432","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-priority","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51133","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=51133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}