{"id":221294,"date":"2026-04-07T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221294\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:23:07","slug":"3-georgia-teens-killed-in-fiery-florida-crash-on-highway-65-in-franklin-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221294\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Georgia teens killed in fiery Florida crash on Highway 65 in Franklin County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Georgia teenagers are dead following a fiery crash in Florida, according to authorities in Franklin County.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened along Highway 65, where officials say the incident led to a fire and forced the roadway to shut down for several hours as crews responded and investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Details about what led to the crash \u2014 including how many vehicles were involved and the sequence of events \u2014 have not yet been fully released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials have also not publicly identified the victims, but confirmed they were teenagers from Georgia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews responded to the scene and worked to contain the fire while securing the area. The highway closure caused disruptions as investigators processed the scene.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear where in Georgia the teens were from or what they were doing in the area at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Georgia teenagers are dead following a fiery crash in Florida, according to authorities in Franklin County. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2336,47883,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-221294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-car-crash","9":"tag-car-fire","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221294","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=221294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}