{"id":162490,"date":"2026-02-20T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162490\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:20:07","slug":"motorcyclist-dead-after-crashing-into-median-tree-on-jacksonvilles-westside-jso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162490\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist dead after crashing into median, tree on Jacksonville&#8217;s Westside: JSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JSO Sgt. Robert Hungerford said the motorcyclist was ejected off his motorcycle during the collision.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A motorcyclist died late Thursday night after crashing into a median and tree on Jacksonville&#8217;s Westside, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>JSO Sgt. Robert Hungerford said the motorcyclist, a man in his late 40s, was traveling eastbound in the 11000 block of Crystal Springs Road around 11:37 p.m. when he &#8220;veered to the left and struck the center median curb and then a tree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hungerford said the collision caused the man to be ejected off his motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department then responded to the scene, Hungerford said, and pronounced the man dead.<\/p>\n<p>This crash marks the 28th traffic fatality in Duval County in 2026, and the 7th involving a motorcycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JSO Sgt. Robert Hungerford said the motorcyclist was ejected off his motorcycle during the collision. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-162490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162490","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=162490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}