{"id":30247,"date":"2025-11-02T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/30247\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:04:13","slug":"winter-haven-police-officer-injured-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/30247\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Haven police officer injured in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/winter-haven-pd-mva-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Courtesy: Winter Haven Public Safety <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">WINTER HAVEN, Fla. &#8211; A Winter Haven police officer was injured early Sunday morning in a two-vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Around 2 a.m., the officer was heading eastbound on Cypress Gardens Blvd.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">As the officer entered the intersection at 1st Street South, a second vehicle was traveling south on 1st St South at a high rate of speed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">When that vehicle entered the intersection, it struck the driver-side door of the marked police vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/winter-haven-pd-mva-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Courtesy: Winter Haven Public Safety <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Both the officer and driver of the second vehicle were injured in the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The officer was taken by ground to Lakeland Regional Health while the driver was flown to LRH.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">At this time, the condition of both drivers is unknown.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was posted on the Winter Haven Public Safety&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/polk\/winter-haven\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Haven<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/polk\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polk County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Winter Haven Public Safety WINTER HAVEN, Fla. &#8211; A Winter Haven police officer was injured early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,115,7153,135,137,136,628,21956],"class_list":{"0":"post-30247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-polk","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-winter-haven"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247","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=30247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}