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A 30-year-old man from Jacksonville is dead after a wrong-way crash in Alachua County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
Troopers say the crash happened around 11:45 p.m. Saturday on State Road 24 at Northeast 53rd Terrace.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Investigators say the driver of a sedan was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes when he crashed head-on into a pickup truck that was heading westbound.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n After the impact, the pickup truck overturned and came to a stop in the westbound lanes.<\/p>\n The sedan caught fire and burned.<\/p>\n The driver of the sedan was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n The driver of the pickup truck, a 21-year-old man from Middleburg, and two passengers suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 30-year-old man from Jacksonville is dead after a wrong-way crash in Alachua County, according to the Florida…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12513,618,761,116,118,117,14405,38079,52067],"class_list":{"0":"post-228600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-alachua-county","9":"tag-florida-highway-patrol","10":"tag-free-action-news-jax","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","13":"tag-jacksonville-news","14":"tag-pickup-truck","15":"tag-westbound-lanes","16":"tag-wrong-way-crash"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228600","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=228600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}