{"id":172727,"date":"2026-02-28T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172727\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:00:12","slug":"man-arrested-after-speeding-slamming-car-into-power-pole-in-port-st-lucie-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172727\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after speeding, slamming car into power pole in Port St. Lucie: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 A man is behind bars after he lost control of his vehicle and crashed head-on into a power pole, totaling his car. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Port St. Lucie Police Department, Marc Demezier, was traveling at a high rate of speed when he suddenly crashed head-on with a power pole near Bayshore Boulevard. <\/p>\n<p>Photos taken from the scene show a black car completely destroyed with a tire off its wheel hub. <\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/man-38-turns-himself-alleged-abuse-hitting-nonverbal-autistic-child-maximum-achievers-cbs12-exclusive-lake-shores-police-department-florida-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man turns himself in after being accused of hitting special needs child at therapy center<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, Demezier, 22, was arrested and booked on charges of reckless driving. <\/p>\n<p>Police say Demezier was uninjured despite his vehicle being totaled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A man is behind bars after he lost control of his vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-172727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172727","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=172727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}