{"id":228914,"date":"2026-04-12T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228914\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:54:09","slug":"jacksonville-man-killed-in-head-on-crash-on-ne-waldo-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228914\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man killed in head-on crash on NE Waldo Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alachuachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1024px-FHP_digital_patch-1.jpeg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1024px-FHP_digital_patch-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20993\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Staff report<\/p>\n<p>GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A 30-year-old Jacksonville man was killed last night in a head-on crash on NE Waldo Road.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release from the Florida Highway Patrol, at about 11:45 p.m. on April 11, the Jacksonville man was driving a sedan eastbound in the westbound lanes of State Road 24 (NE Waldo Road). A pickup truck driven by a 21-year-old Middleburg man was traveling westbound in the westbound lanes of State Road 24, with a 19-year-old female passenger from Macclenny and a 21-year-old male passenger from Middleburg.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicles collided near NE 53rd Terrace, the pickup truck overturned, and the driver and passengers suffered minor injuries; all three were reportedly wearing seatbelts. <\/p>\n<p>The sedan caught fire and became engulfed in flames; the driver was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff report GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A 30-year-old Jacksonville man was killed last night in a head-on crash on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-228914","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\/228914","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=228914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}