{"id":167165,"date":"2026-02-24T17:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167165\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:30:22","slug":"jso-man-dies-after-head-on-collision-with-semi-truck-on-eastport-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167165\/","title":{"rendered":"JSO: Man dies after head-on collision with semi-truck on Eastport Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office says that the victim was in his early 20s.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office has reported that a person has died Monday night following a head-on collision with a semi-truck.<\/p>\n<p>JSO says that a little before 9 p.m., a man in his early 20s was driving a Dodge SUV in the 600 block of Eastport Road.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, JSO says that a semi-truck-trailer was traveling southbound on Textile Road. As the driver was making a wide right turn heading Westbound, the sheriff;s office says that the vehicle crept into the oncoming eastbound lane, which resulted in the collision.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Jacksonville Fire and Rescue responded, where they pronounced the driver of the SUV deceased upon arrival.<\/p>\n<p>According to JSO, this is the 33rd traffic fatality in Duval County in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office says that the victim was in his early 20s. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-167165","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\/167165","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=167165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}