{"id":414000,"date":"2026-09-29T19:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414000\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T19:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:30:15","slug":"new-info-motorcyclist-identified-in-deadly-highway-17-crash-in-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414000\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW INFO: Motorcyclist identified in deadly Highway 17 crash in Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Jacksonville police are sharing more details about a crash that killed a motorcyclist yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Just after 4 p.m. Monday, officers said they found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/09\/28\/police-deadly-motorcycle-crash-makes-highway-17-one-lane-jacksonville\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/09\/28\/police-deadly-motorcycle-crash-makes-highway-17-one-lane-jacksonville\/\">Karlos Darden<\/a> was thrown from a motorcycle on Highway 17 south and 53 Bypass south. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a police spokesperson, the 21-year-old was trying to merge across several lanes of traffic when he lost control and hit the guardrail to the right of the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">His motorcycle rolled several times and threw Darden off before it stopped at the end of the ramp, the department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said speeding contributed to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. JACKSONVILLE, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,164023,1737,4481,1854,4480],"class_list":["post-414000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-karlos-darden","tag-motorcycle","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414000","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=414000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}