{"id":398871,"date":"2026-09-13T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398871\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T19:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:48:11","slug":"wrong-way-crash-sends-3-to-hospital-troopers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398871\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong-way crash sends 3 to hospital, troopers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crash happened Sunday on Interstate 75 in Sumter County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  style=\"object-fit:cover;max-width:1920px;max-height:1080px;aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777;width:100%\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GODDRH4S5JG77NHY2FATN5RYQY.jpg\"\/>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=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 A head on crash on Interstate 75 in Sumter County left 3 people hurt, one critically on Sunday, state troopers say. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Florida Highway Patrol says a 22-year-old Ocala man was traveling the wrong direction, when he ran into a 57-year-old Texas woman driving a Land Rover, just south of State Road 91.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Troopers say both drivers went to the hospital with serious injuries, and a male passenger in the Land Rover was hospitalized with critical injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Troopers say it\u2019s unclear where the 22-year-old started driving the wrong way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crash happened Sunday on Interstate 75 in Sumter County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol FHP generic, Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67276,28,30,29,158795,8566,12885,3315,52067],"class_list":["post-398871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-critical-injuries","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-head-on-crash","tag-i-75","tag-interstate-75","tag-sumter-county","tag-wrong-way-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398871","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=398871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}