{"id":162568,"date":"2026-02-20T13:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162568\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:34:27","slug":"motorcyclist-dead-after-crashing-into-median-tree-on-jacksonvilles-westside-jso-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162568\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist dead after crashing into median, tree on Jacksonville&#8217;s Westside: JSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hungerford said the collision caused the man to be ejected off his motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Members of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department then responded to the scene, Hungerford said, and pronounced the man dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This crash marks the 28th traffic fatality in Duval County in 2026, and the 7th involving a motorcycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist died late Thursday night after crashing into a median and tree on Jacksonville&#8217;s Westside, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77785,28387,116,118,117,5857,77784],"class_list":{"0":"post-162568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-crystal-springs-road","9":"tag-first-coast-news","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","12":"tag-jacksonville-news","13":"tag-motorcyclist","14":"tag-robert-hungerford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162568","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=162568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}