{"id":423833,"date":"2026-10-10T01:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423833\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T01:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:14:11","slug":"one-dead-after-vehicle-veers-off-road-collides-with-tree-near-jefferson-road-in-leon-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423833\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after vehicle veers off road, collides with tree near Jefferson Road in Leon County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LEON COUNTY, Fla. (WCTV) &#8211; An Ohio man died Thursday evening in Leon County after his vehicle veered off the roadway and collided with a tree, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash happened at about 7:45 p.m. on US 90 near Jefferson Road, FHP wrote in a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An investigation revealed that a vehicle, driven by the Ohio man, was traveling west on US 90 just before it left the roadway \u201cfor unknown reason\u201d and collided with a tree, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After the initial collision, the vehicle then came to a final rest facing westbound on US 90.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver was pronounced dead on scene, per FHP. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Next of kin has been notified, according to the state agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is an ongoing investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To keep up with the latest news as it develops, follow WCTV on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WCTV.tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wctvnews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WCTVEyewitnessNews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nextdoor<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Have a news tip or see an error? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2026\/10\/09\/one-dead-after-vehicle-veers-off-road-collides-with-tree-near-jefferson-road-leon-county\/mailto:news@wctv.tv?subject=Correction%20Needed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Write to us here<\/a>. 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(WCTV) &#8211; An Ohio man died Thursday evening in Leon County after his vehicle veered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6530,2774,1776,2624,1056,618,75950,5858,1289,116763,232,234,233,15179,63867],"class_list":["post-423833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-collide","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-fhp","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-jefferson-road","tag-killed","tag-leon-county","tag-ohio-man","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tree","tag-us-90"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423833","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=423833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}