{"id":219860,"date":"2026-04-05T21:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219860\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:59:08","slug":"winter-park-man-dies-after-truck-collides-with-semi-hauling-logs-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219860\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Park man dies after truck collides with semi hauling logs, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/polk-co-crash.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">LAKELAND, Fla. &#8211; A Winter Park man has died after logs from the back of a semi truck pierced the windshield of the semi he was driving in Polk County, according to the Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Officials said the crash happened on April 1, around 10:50 a.m. in the area of US 98 North and State Road 471.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Deputies believe 44-year-old Gabriel Beauford was traveling behind the 2023 Mack truck when the truck entered a turning lane to head east on SR 471. The timber being hauled from the Mack then pierced the windshield of Beauford&#8217;s truck, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Beauford was pronounced dead on scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The crash prompted the roadway to be closed for seven hours.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">No criminal charges are anticipated against the driver of the Mack truck, as it was determined to be in compliance with safety measures for the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/polk-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polk County News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article LAKELAND, Fla. &#8211; A Winter Park man has died after logs from the back of a semi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47,115,139,141,140,1911,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-219860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-news","13":"tag-polk-county","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219860","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=219860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}