{"id":307394,"date":"2026-06-14T22:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307394\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T22:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:03:14","slug":"man-dead-3-seriously-injured-in-fiery-wrong-way-crash-near-clermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307394\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead, 3 seriously injured in fiery wrong-way crash near Clermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">CLERMONT, Fla. \u2014 A wrong-way driver was killed and three other men were seriously injured in a fiery head-on crash Sunday morning near Clermont, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The crash occurred at 6:20 a.m. on State Road 33 near Bakers Lane in unincorporated Clermont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">FHP said a 24-year-old Orlando man was driving a 2026 Toyota Camry northbound in the southbound lane of State Road 33 when he collided head-on with a 2016 Dodge Journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The impact caused the Dodge to catch fire, according to FHP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The driver of the Toyota was pronounced dead at the scene. His passengers, a 25-year-old Orlando man and a 23-year-old Oviedo man, were transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The driver of the Dodge, a 33-year-old Kissimmee man, was also transported to ORMC with serious injuries, FHP said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash shut down State Road 33 between Laws Road and Ott Williams Road for several hours while troopers investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":". CLERMONT, Fla. \u2014 A wrong-way driver was killed and three other men were seriously injured in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3683,1776,20553,1056,28,30,29,2174],"class_list":["post-307394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-clermont","tag-crash","tag-fatality","tag-fhp","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-lake-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307394","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=307394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}