{"id":391799,"date":"2026-09-06T01:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391799\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T01:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:28:11","slug":"3-hurt-in-fiery-wrong-way-crash-on-sr-414-in-orange-county-fhp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391799\/","title":{"rendered":"3 hurt in fiery wrong-way crash on SR 414 in Orange County, FHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3 hurt in fiery wrong-way crash on SR 414 in Orange County, FHP says<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788658091_692_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Brandon Hogan\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Three people were hurt in a wrong-way crash early Saturday on State Road 414 in Orange County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The crash occurred around 4:51 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of S.R. 414 in the area of mile marker 9 in Apopka, troopers said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">According to a statement from FHP, a 2007 Mercury Grand Marquis was traveling westbound in the eastbound inside lane of S.R. 414, east of U.S. 441, as a 2021 Ford Mustang traveled eastbound in the same lane. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The driver of the Ford swerved left toward the inside shoulder in an attempt to avoid a collision, at which point the front right of both vehicles collided with each other, the statement reads. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The crash caused the Ford to rotate, strike the center median concrete barrier wall, and catch fire, troopers said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The 30-year-old Clarcona woman who was driving the Mercury, and her passenger \u2014 who has so far only been identified as a man \u2014 were hospitalized as trauma alerts for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, according to FHP. The 22-year-old Apopka man who was driving the Ford suffered minor injuries and was also hospitalized, troopers said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">At the time of this report, it was not known why the Mercury was traveling in the wrong direction. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">FHP is still investigating. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 hurt in fiery wrong-way crash on SR 414 in Orange County, FHP says ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-391799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391799","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=391799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}