{"id":406121,"date":"2026-09-21T12:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406121\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:06:12","slug":"2-killed-in-polk-county-highway-crash-fhp-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406121\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed in Polk County highway crash, FHP announces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">POLK COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Two people are dead and another two seriously hurt after a crash in Polk County late Saturday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">In a release, troopers said the crash happened around 11:55 p.m. along US-17\/92 near West James Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">At the time, a Honda sedan was heading south on the highway, while a Nissan was driving north, troopers explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">However, the Honda reportedly entered the northbound lane, crashing \u201cnearly head-on\u201d with the Nissan, the release shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Troopers said that both drivers and two passengers in the Nissan were seriously injured as a result and taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The Nissan driver \u2014 identified only as a 37-year-old Kissimmee man \u2014 later died from his injuries, as well as one of the passengers, a 45-year-old Kissimmee woman, troopers noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">No additional information has been provided at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POLK COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Two people are dead and another two seriously hurt after a crash in Polk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1776,7285,4424,28,30,29,1911],"class_list":["post-406121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crash","tag-davenport","tag-death-investigation","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-polk-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406121","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=406121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}