Troopers said the man was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of State Road 24. His vehicle reportedly became “engulfed” in flames after the collision.<\/p>\n
GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A 30-year-old Jacksonville man was killed in a head-on crash in Alachua County late Saturday night, according to Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
FHP did not release the man’s identity. The agency said that around 11:45 p.m. Saturday, the man was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of State Road 24 when his vehicle crashed head-on with a pickup truck.<\/p>\n
After the collision, troopers said the man’s vehicle became engulfed in flames, while the pickup truck involved overturned.<\/p>\n
The man was pronounced dead on scene, FHP said. The driver of the pickup truck, a 21-year-old Middleburg man, and his two passengers \u2014 another 21-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman \u2014 suffered minor injuries in the crash, according to FHP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troopers said the man was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of State Road 24. His vehicle reportedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-228612","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\/228612","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=228612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}