{"id":327,"date":"2025-10-13T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:42:10","slug":"clarke-county-man-charged-with-dui-speeding-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarke County man charged with DUI, speeding in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG<\/a>) \u2014 A man from Clarke County was arrested under a new Florida law, News 5<\/a> has learned.<\/p>\n

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According to a Florida Highway Patrol<\/a> release, Daniel Josiah Powell, 24, was arrested early Friday on I-10 for driving while intoxicated and being a \u201csuper speeder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Powell allegedly was driving northbound while going 131 mph in a 65 mph zone at around 12 a.m. in Escambia County. He rear-ended a car at mile marker #8 before a Florida Trooper was able to initiate a full stop.<\/p>\n

To prevent him from leaving the scene, the trooper \u201cmade contact with Mr. Powell\u2019s vehicle,\u201d the release said. The person in the car struck by Powell, a man from Tennessee, reportedly was not injured.<\/p>\n

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A Florida Trooper makes contact with Daniel Powell\u2019s vehicle during an attempted traffic stop. (Florida Highway Patrol)<\/p>\n

Powell was released from the hospital following treatment for minor injuries.<\/p>\n

He is charged with DUI, operating a vehicle over 100 mph, and refusal to submit a lawful breath test, and cited with not wearing a seat belt and failure to provide vehicle insurance.<\/p>\n

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He was taken to the Escambia County Jail and has a bond of $3,500.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WKRG News 5. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) \u2014 A man from Clarke County was arrested under a new Florida law, News…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[620,619,621,623,622,28,30,618,29],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-clarke-county","tag-daniel-josiah-powell","tag-daniel-powell","tag-driving-while-intoxicated","tag-escambia-county","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","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=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}