{"id":804611,"date":"2026-08-06T12:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804611\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:54:13","slug":"2-dead-after-fedex-semi-crashes-into-wall-on-louisville-interstate-ramp-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804611\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead after FedEx semi crashes into wall on Louisville interstate; ramp blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 dead after FedEx semi crashes into wall on Louisville interstate; ramp blocked<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7a293606-e877-4093-ab72-7b498948e3d6_1635101776.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Alex Suckow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Two men are dead after a FedEx semi hit a wall in Louisville.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The semi crashed around 5 a.m. Thursday on the I-65 S ramp to I-264 E\/Watterson Expressway (exit 131A). <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">LMPD said it appears the semi was headed northbound on the ramp when it missed the curve, crossing into the southbound ramp and hit a rock wall head-on.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3d0a1c10-77c9-4b1e-a5a9-c1bc6b590027.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3d0a1c10-77c9-4b1e-a5a9-c1bc6b590027.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ad016a7a-8ea6-4c7d-9451-02cf20238732.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ad016a7a-8ea6-4c7d-9451-02cf20238732.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Police said two men died.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">The LMPD Traffic Unit is investigating. Traffic in the area could be shut down for another two or three hours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 dead after FedEx semi crashes into wall on Louisville interstate; ramp blocked LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 Two men&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,15441,37504,45645,6065,451,341701,341703,341700,17341,3,3590,1583,39550,341702,452,453,52346,177513,56338],"class_list":["post-804611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-crash","tag-curve","tag-exit","tag-fedex","tag-headlines","tag-i-264-e","tag-lmpd-traffic-unit","tag-louisville-interstate","tag-male","tag-news","tag-people","tag-police","tag-ramp","tag-rock-wall-head-on","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-wall","tag-watterson-expressway","tag-wlky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804611","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=804611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}