{"id":305458,"date":"2026-06-12T17:50:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/305458\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:50:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:50:47","slug":"jacksonville-man-suffers-critical-injuries-in-fiery-semi-truck-crash-on-i-95-in-st-johns-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/305458\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man suffers critical injuries in fiery semi-truck crash on I-95 in St. Johns County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 69-year-old Jacksonville man suffered critical injuries in a fiery semi-truck crash on I-95 in St. Johns County Thursday morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash caused all southbound and northbound lanes on the interstate to shut down temporarily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to FHP, the man was driving a semi-truck south on I-95 near State Road 207 at 10:18 a.m. when he veered left, crossed the left lane and entered the median.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FHP said the semi-truck then overturned on top of the guardrail and became engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was then taken to UF Health Shands Gainesville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Troopers said it is unclear at this time what caused the man to veer off the interstate. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 69-year-old Jacksonville man suffered critical injuries in a fiery semi-truck crash on I-95 in St. Johns County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67276,1056,618,116,118,117,44287,13191,83489],"class_list":["post-305458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-critical-injuries","tag-fhp","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-northbound-lanes","tag-semi-truck","tag-st-johns-county-sheriff39s-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305458","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=305458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}