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UPDATE: The lanes began reopening just before 6 a.m. and were fully reopened by 8 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traffic on Interstate 4 westbound in Polk County came to a halt Tuesday evening after a depression in the roadway forced officials to close all lanes near Exit 55, US-27 in Davenport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), the closure began a little after 7 p.m., and emergency vehicles arrived at the scene shortly thereafter. Officials reported the affected area spans mile markers 57 to 56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drivers are advised to use caution and seek alternate routes, as the closure is classified as a major event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: The lanes began reopening just before 6 a.m. and were fully reopened by 8 a.m. Traffic on Interstate 4 westbound in Polk County came to a halt Tuesday evening… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"14","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDJcL2Rvd25sb2FkLTItMy53ZWJwP2ZpdD0xMDI0JTJDNTc2JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiV2VzdGJvdW5kIGxhbmVzIG9mIEludGVyc3RhdGUgNCBhcmUgY3VycmVudGx5IHNodXQgZG93biBiZXR3ZWVuIEV4aXQgNTcgKENoYW1waW9uc0dhdGUpIGFuZCBFeGl0IDU1IChIYWluZXMgQ2l0eSkgZHVlIHRvIGEgZGVwcmVzc2lvbiBpbiB0aGUgcm9hZHdheSIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiaGlnaHdheSIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.q5sP1DHmHnaovxH8HIEExaj8T5n4oVP7bql_I195dx0MQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":62866,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/download-2-3.webp","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[13747],"class_list":["post-62865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-westbound-lanes-of-interstate-4-are-currently-shut-down-between-exit-57-championsgate-and-exit-55-haines-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62872,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62865\/revisions\/62872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}