{"id":11946,"date":"2025-10-20T08:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/11946\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:40:06","slug":"fhp-says-man-dies-while-turning-into-driveway-in-okeechobee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/11946\/","title":{"rendered":"FHP says man dies while turning into driveway in Okeechobee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GLADES COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A man is dead after a crash in Okeechobee, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>FHP said the 85-year-old driver was going west on State Road 78 in a pickup truck, approaching a driveway at 24497 State Road 78 in Okeechobee. They reported this was just after 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>When the driver turned left, he went across the SR78 eastbound lane, and into the grass, according to FHP. The front of the car hit a barbed wire fence and tree, troopers said. The driver died. <\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLADES COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A man is dead after a crash in Okeechobee, according to the Florida Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5926,10999,28,30,618,29,11000,1277],"class_list":["post-11946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-collier-county","tag-driveway-crash","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-florida-news","tag-glades-county","tag-okeechobee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}