{"id":49635,"date":"2021-07-08T14:10:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T18:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=49635"},"modified":"2021-07-08T14:12:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T18:12:38","slug":"three-car-crash-causes-major-slowdowns-for-commuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/07\/three-car-crash-causes-major-slowdowns-for-commuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Three car crash causes major slowdowns for commuters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;A three-car crash on the eastbound lanes of the Midpoint Bridge caused major delays for commuters from Cape Coral on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cape-coral-crash-750x375-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cape-coral-crash-750x375-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cape-coral-crash-750x375-1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol responded to the crash just before 6 a.m. Before the crash, an SUV driven by a 28-year-old Cape Coral man broke down in the left eastbound lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 58-year-old Cape Coral man driving a truck and a 23-year-old Lehigh Acres man in a truck was heading towards the broken-down SUV in the left lane. The Cape Coral man swerved into the right lane and side-swiped the SUV, troopers said. His truck flipped into the right shoulder of the bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lehigh Acres man slammed into the back of the SUV and flipped onto the concrete divider wall in the left shoulder, troopers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three drivers suffered only minor injuries and were all wearing their seatbelts at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash completely blocked the eastbound lanes of the Midpoint Bridge, causing major delays for those driving from Cape Coral to Fort Myers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;A three-car crash on the eastbound lanes of the Midpoint Bridge caused major delays for commuters from Cape Coral on Thursday morning. Troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol responded to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49637,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49635\/revisions\/49637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}