{"id":323004,"date":"2026-06-29T04:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323004\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T04:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:26:15","slug":"three-children-hospitalized-after-car-strikes-utility-pole-and-road-sign-hcfr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323004\/","title":{"rendered":"Three children hospitalized after car strikes utility pole and road sign: HCFR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hcfr-crash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Courtesy: Hernando County Fire Rescue <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">BROOKSVILLE, Fla. &#8211; Hernando County Fire Rescue cleared the scene of an accident at West Jefferson Street and Cortez Boulevard on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to HCFR, five people were inside a car when it struck a utility pole and road sign.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials said three pediatric patients met the trauma alert criteria and were transported to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hcfr-crash-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy: Hernando County Fire Rescue <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The two remaining occupants refused medical treatment and transport, HCFR said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It is unclear what caused the crash, or if anyone is facing any charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information from Hernando County Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hernando\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hernando County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Hernando County Fire Rescue BROOKSVILLE, Fla. &#8211; Hernando County Fire Rescue cleared the scene of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,8705,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-323004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fl","tag-hernando","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323004","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=323004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}