{"id":366919,"date":"2026-08-09T16:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366919\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:42:23","slug":"clermont-man-dies-after-car-hits-two-trees-overturns-fhp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366919\/","title":{"rendered":"Clermont man dies after car hits two trees, overturns, FHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clermont man dies after car hits two trees, overturns, FHP says<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old driver was pronounced dead at a hospital after the early Sunday crash in Lake County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/70e8db86-6087-48f3-84b3-b5ea95569980_1781272868.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Christian Bussiere\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>CLERMONT, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A 36-year-old Clermont man died Sunday after his car struck two trees and overturned in Lake County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Troopers say the crash occurred at about 2:12 a.m. on Greater Hills Boulevard, north of Charter Oaks Trail. Investigators said the man was driving a Porsche Boxster north when the car left the roadway, struck a curb, and continued northwest before hitting two trees.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The impact caused the car to overturn and land on its roof. The driver was taken to Orlando Health South Lake Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to Troopers<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">FHP says the driver was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. His name has not been released.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The crash remains under investigation by The Florida Highway Patrol. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clermont man dies after car hits two trees, overturns, FHP says The 36-year-old driver was pronounced dead at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5071,220,148765,148764,1776,2675,1056,28,30,618,29,148766,7441,1276,69019,148767,15179,918],"class_list":["post-366919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-a-m","tag-car","tag-charter-oaks-trail","tag-clermont-man","tag-crash","tag-driver","tag-fhp","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-florida-news","tag-greater-hills-boulevard","tag-investigator","tag-north","tag-overturn","tag-porsche-boxster-north","tag-tree","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366919","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=366919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}