{"id":260987,"date":"2026-05-06T19:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260987\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:08:13","slug":"fhp-driver-critically-injured-in-north-tallahassee-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260987\/","title":{"rendered":"FHP: Driver critically injured in north Tallahassee wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Tallahassee Democrat;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Tallahassee Democrat\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arianna Otero, Tallahassee Democrat<\/p>\n<p>Updated Wed, May 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>A 53-year-old Tallahassee man was taken to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital with critical injuries after a wreck on Lakeshore Drive, the Florida Highway Patrol said on May 6.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was heading east toward Duparc Circle when, for unknown reasons, he left the roadway and hit a street sign and utility pole, a press release said.<\/p>\n<p>He finally crossed Duparc Circle, landing in a ditch after also striking a palm tree. There were no other injuries or vehicles involved; the man&#8217;s condition was unavailable later on May 6.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers were assisted on scene by the Leon County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Leon County EMS and the Tallahassee Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A 53-year-old Tallahassee man was transported to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital with critical injuries after crashing on Lakeshore Drive.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_tallahassee_democrat_960\/a1553988cbd78677a163603cb1244037.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A 53-year-old Tallahassee man was transported to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital with critical injuries after crashing on Lakeshore Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Arianna Otero is the trending and breaking news reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat. Contact her via email at\u00a0<a data-ylk=\"slk:AOtero@tallahassee.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/mailto:AOtero@tallahassee.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AOtero@tallahassee.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow her on X:\u00a0<a data-ylk=\"slk:@ari_v_otero;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ari_v_otero\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@ari_v_otero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Driver injured after crash on Lakeshore Drive, FHP says;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/06\/driver-injured-after-crash-on-lakeshore-drive-fhp-says\/89960055007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Driver injured after crash on Lakeshore Drive, FHP says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arianna Otero, Tallahassee Democrat Updated Wed, May 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM UTC A 53-year-old Tallahassee man was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[67276,112705,618,112704,5699,232,16817,234,7450,233],"class_list":["post-260987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-critical-injuries","tag-duparc-circle","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-lakeshore-drive","tag-leon-county-sheriffs-office","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-fire-department","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-memorial-hospital","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260987","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=260987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}