{"id":344563,"date":"2026-07-18T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344563\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:50:07","slug":"early-morning-crash-leaves-motorcyclist-dead-according-to-state-troopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344563\/","title":{"rendered":"Early morning crash leaves motorcyclist dead, according to state troopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crash happened around 2 a.m. Sunday on Taft Vineland Road<\/p>\n<p>FHP generic, Florida Highway Patrol, Police lights, Police siren, Police car, State Trooper, Police light (Copyright 2022 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 A Kissimmee man is dead after an early-morning motorcycle crash involving a tractor-trailer in Orange County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Troopers say the crash happened around 2 a.m. Sunday on Taft Vineland Road near Sidney Hayes Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Investigators say the motorcyclist failed to stop and ran into the tractor-trailer in front of him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The motorcyclist died at the scene, and the truck driver was not injured, troopers say. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 bTVksG\">Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crash happened around 2 a.m. Sunday on Taft Vineland Road FHP generic, Florida Highway Patrol, Police lights, Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1776,7375,2337,618,1737,1335,139,141,140,21512,141238],"class_list":["post-344563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-crash","tag-deadly-crash","tag-fatal-crash","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-motorcycle","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-state-troopers","tag-taft-vineland-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344563","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=344563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}