{"id":40256,"date":"2025-11-09T23:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/40256\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:25:22","slug":"brandon-man-dead-after-near-head-on-pasco-county-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/40256\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon man dead after near head-on Pasco County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">DADE CITY, Fla. &#8211; A Brandon man is dead after a nearly head-on crash on Blanton Road in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pasco\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pasco County<\/a> Saturday evening, according to troopers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Florida Highway Patrol said the 21-year-old Brandon man was driving a Hyundai Elantra eastbound on Blanton Road while two other vehicles, a Chevy Equinox and Kia Sportage, were heading westbound.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">PREVIOUS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/2-year-old-darts-path-truck-dade-city-dies-from-injuries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-year-old boy dead after darting into path of truck in Dade City neighborhood<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pasco-blanton-crash-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol. <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to officials, the Brandon man failed to negotiate a curve in the road east of County Squire Lane. That&#8217;s when the Hyundai Elantra went into the westbound lane, hitting the Chevy Equinox nearly head-on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Troopers said debris from the crash struck the Kia Sportage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pasco-blanton-crash-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol. <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Brandon man and the driver of the Chevy Equinox, a 28-year-old Zephyrhills man, were both taken to area hospitals with serious injuries, but the Brandon man later died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/armed-pasco-county-firefighter-accused-chasing-driver-gunpoint-arrested-road-rage-again-pcso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Armed Pasco County firefighter accused of tailgating driver arrested in \u2018road rage\u2019 incident again: PCSO<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The driver of the Kia Sportage, a 26-year-old Brooksville woman, was not injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">FHP has not released the identity of the Brandon man who died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was released by the Florida Highway Patrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pasco\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pasco County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DADE CITY, Fla. &#8211; A Brandon man is dead after a nearly head-on crash on Blanton Road in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,115,4136,135,137,136,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-40256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pasco","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40256","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=40256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}