{"id":339467,"date":"2026-07-14T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339467\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:03:13","slug":"seminole-crash-kills-85-year-old-man-passenger-on-life-support-pcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339467\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminole crash kills 85-year-old man, passenger on life support: PCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">SEMINOLE, Fla. &#8211; An 85-year-old man was killed and his passenger remains on life support following a two-vehicle crash Monday evening in Seminole, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pinellas County<\/a> Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p> Seminole deadly crash   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators said the crash happened shortly after 6 p.m. Monday on Seminole Boulevard near 50th Avenue North.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to deputies, Lily Preston, 18, was driving a Genesis SUV southbound in the center lane of Seminole Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">At the same time, James Crane III, 85, was driving a Chrysler PT Cruiser in the northbound left-turn lane, attempting to turn west onto 50th Avenue North.<\/p>\n<p> Crash investigation <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators said James Crane failed to yield to oncoming traffic and turned in front of the Genesis, causing the SUV to crash into the passenger side of the PT Cruiser.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">James Crane, of Seminole, was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead Monday evening, PCSO said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">James Crane also had a passenger in the vehicle, Dacosta Crane, 20, of Seminole, who suffered life-threatening injuries and remains on life support, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Preston was medically evaluated at the scene and was not injured, PCSO said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Detectives said neither impairment nor speed appears to have been a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PCSO said the victims\u2019 next of kin were notified.<\/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 ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was provided by the Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEMINOLE, Fla. &#8211; An 85-year-old man was killed and his passenger remains on life support following a two-vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-339467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339467","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=339467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}