{"id":225043,"date":"2026-04-09T16:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225043\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:37:07","slug":"car-carrying-kids-to-daycare-involved-in-head-on-crash-in-orange-park-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225043\/","title":{"rendered":"Car carrying kids to daycare involved in head-on crash in Orange Park, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kids sustained minor injuries from their seatbelts but will all be OK, Orange Park Police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>ORANGE PARK, Fla. \u2014 A car carrying three children to a daycare was involved in a head-on crash with another car Wednesday morning, according to officials with the Orange Park Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the two-car crash on River Road the morning of Wednesday, April 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said one driver attempted to pass a slower-moving car ahead, resulting in a head-on crash with an oncoming car. Both cars sustained significant damage, and both drivers reported minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>One of the cars was carrying three children to a nearby daycare. When officers arrived, a daycare representative took the children to the facility so parents could be notified to pick them up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The children&#8217;s parents picked them up and sought medical evaluation for minor injuries consistent with seatbelt use, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the at-fault driver was given a citation, but did not specify which driver was responsible.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The kids sustained minor injuries from their seatbelts but will all be OK, Orange Park Police said in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-225043","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\/225043","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=225043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}