{"id":329543,"date":"2026-07-04T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329543\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:00:07","slug":"man-dies-after-fiery-crash-in-leon-county-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329543\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after fiery crash in Leon County Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died in Leon County after his sedan hit a concrete curb, caught fire, and hit several trees, the Florida Highway Patrol says.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at around noon on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>An FHP report says the 78-year-old driver was trying to make a left turn in the McDonald&#8217;s parking lot on Mahan Drive. The report says he lost control and hit a concrete curb.<\/p>\n<p>The FHP says the impact caused a nitrous oxide tank to rupture and catch fire. The report says the vehicle then hit several trees, a retainer wall, and a guardrail.<\/p>\n<p>The patrol says the driver was pronounced dead on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Instagram\u00a0<\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died in Leon County after his sedan hit a concrete curb, caught fire, and hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[136243,19432,62642,1289,136244,7472,59636,24143,111558,232,234,233,562],"class_list":["post-329543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-curbing","tag-deadly","tag-fiery-crash","tag-leon-county","tag-male-driver","tag-mcdonalds","tag-nitrous-oxide","tag-parking-lot","tag-single-vehicle","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329543","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=329543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}