{"id":63940,"date":"2026-03-19T22:26:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=63940"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:26:11","slug":"a-fatal-collision-between-a-truck-and-a-train-occurred-this-evening-thursday-march-19-2026-in-northwest-lakeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/03\/19\/a-fatal-collision-between-a-truck-and-a-train-occurred-this-evening-thursday-march-19-2026-in-northwest-lakeland\/","title":{"rendered":"A fatal collision between a truck and a train occurred this evening, Thursday, March 19, 2026, in northwest Lakeland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office reported the following details regarding the incident:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-dominant-color=\"76785d\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #76785d;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/images-1-8.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63941 not-transparent\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> The crash took place at the intersection of <strong>Kathleen Road and Spivey Road<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Time:<\/strong> Deputies were alerted to the collision around <strong>6:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Casualties:<\/strong> One person has been confirmed dead. No other injuries have been reported at this time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Status:<\/strong> The investigation is ongoing, and authorities have not yet released the identity of the deceased or the specific circumstances that led to the crash.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"p-rc_f45a9e9870209f3b-24\">This area has seen similar incidents in the past, including a notable fatal collision near the same intersection (Kathleen Road between Deeson and Spivey) in August 2024.<sup><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drivers should expect continued delays or road closures in the northwest Lakeland area while investigators process the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office reported the following details regarding the incident: This area has seen similar incidents in the past, including a notable fatal collision near the same intersection&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDNcL2ltYWdlcy0xLTgud2VicD9maXQ9MjU5JTJDMTk0JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiQSBmYXRhbCBjb2xsaXNpb24gYmV0d2VlbiBhIHRydWNrIGFuZCBhIHRyYWluIG9jY3VycmVkIHRoaXMgZXZlbmluZywgVGh1cnNkYXksIE1hcmNoIDE5LCAyMDI2LCBpbiBub3J0aHdlc3QgTGFrZWxhbmQiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.PoK-J11BTJTCF84dW07UJd4pRsDbq9p0zu8E0z8ie3QMQ"},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[13094,14131,14132,14127,8125],"class_list":["post-63940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-13094","tag-a-fatal-collision-between-a-truck-and-a-train-occurred-this-evening","tag-in-northwest-lakeland","tag-march-19","tag-thursday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63940","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=63940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63942,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63940\/revisions\/63942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}