{"id":228682,"date":"2026-04-12T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228682\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:14:11","slug":"jacksonville-man-killed-in-head-on-crash-in-gainesville-fhp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228682\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man killed in head-on crash in Gainesville: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FHP did not release the man&#8217;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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After the collision, troopers said the man&#8217;s vehicle became engulfed in flames, while the pickup truck involved overturned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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":"A 30-year-old Jacksonville man was killed in a head-on crash in Alachua County late Saturday night, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1056,618,116,118,117,14405,38079],"class_list":{"0":"post-228682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-fhp","9":"tag-florida-highway-patrol","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","12":"tag-jacksonville-news","13":"tag-pickup-truck","14":"tag-westbound-lanes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228682","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=228682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}