{"id":311678,"date":"2026-06-18T12:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311678\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:19:13","slug":"psl-man-killed-in-two-vehicle-crash-in-highlands-county-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311678\/","title":{"rendered":"PSL man killed in two vehicle crash in Highlands County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLANDS COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 Two people, including a Port St. Lucie man, were killed in a head-on crash in Highlands County on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flhsmv.gov\/?utm_source=internal&amp;utm_medium=none&amp;utm_campaign=Logo&amp;utm_content=home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Florida Highway Patrol<\/a>, at about 12:10 p.m., a 2016 Ford Explorer was traveling on Northwest New Pine Ridge Road. At the same time, a 69-year-old man, of Port St. Lucie, was driving a 2005 Dodge Ram on State Road 70.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/florida-court-says-adults-under-21-concealed-carry-ban-unconstitutional-attorney-general-james-uthmeier-florida-news-firearms-guns-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida court strikes down under-21 concealed-carry ban, AG James Uthmeier says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ford Explorer, driven by a 41-year-old Lorida man, crossed the centerline and collided head-on with the Dodge Ram.<\/p>\n<p>Both drivers were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIGHLANDS COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Two people, including a Port St. Lucie man, were killed in a head-on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-311678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311678","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=311678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}