{"id":333219,"date":"2026-07-08T15:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333219\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:43:25","slug":"palmetto-woman-dies-after-boat-crashes-into-mangroves-fwc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333219\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmetto woman dies after boat crashes into mangroves: FWC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PALMETTO, Fla. &#8211; A Palmetto woman was killed after a boat carrying seven people crashed into mangroves in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/manatee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Manatee County <\/a>over the holiday weekend, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).<\/p>\n<p> Manatee County boat crash   <\/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 FWC, the crash happened on Sunday as the 24-foot vessel was leaving Flounder Pass and entering Terra Ceia Bay.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FWC said the Manatee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and Manatee County Fire Rescue also responded to the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators said two people aboard the boat were injured and taken to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FWC identified the victim, who later died, as Felicia Taylor, 40.<\/p>\n<p> Boat wreck cause <\/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=\"\">FWC officials are investigating what caused the boat to hit the mangroves. They have not released information about the condition of the second injured occupant.<\/p>\n<p> Accident investigation <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The investigation remains active and additional information will be released as it becomes available, FWC said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/manatee\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manatee County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALMETTO, Fla. &#8211; A Palmetto woman was killed after a boat carrying seven people crashed into mangroves in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,4134,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-333219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fl","tag-manatee","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\/333219","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=333219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}