{"id":454674,"date":"2026-11-12T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/454674\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T15:04:10","slug":"florida-man-dies-after-car-hits-utility-pole-in-central-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/454674\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man dies after car hits utility pole in Central Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/2a0b4094-2acc-4540-b0eb-cafafdcde860_1729194105.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Lynne Keenum\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A 41-year-old Miami man died early Saturday morning when his vehicle hit a utility pole in Birmingham, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Francisco Morales was the only person in the vehicle when it crashed shortly after 4:30 a.m. in the 2500 block of Ishkooda Road SW, according to the Jefferson County Coroner\u2019s Office. That&#8217;s in the Powderly community.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Morales was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The Birmingham Police Department is investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">&gt;&gt; WVTM 13 ON-THE-GO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvtm13.com\/article\/get-wvtm-13-on-the-go-download\/44045536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download our app for free<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014 A 41-year-old Miami man died early Saturday morning when his vehicle hit a utility pole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[176335,176314,8173,152530,176315,176316,63467,4206,74223,176317,220,176318,176334,176319,1776,52717,28,30,3475,29,176313,176320,176336,176321,176322,176337,176323,5858,176324,123,176325,176326,176327,106116,88164,176312,176338,176328,176329,176330,4269,732,12749,74219,176331,176332,176333],"class_list":["post-454674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-41-year-old-miami-man","tag-aiyana-clemens","tag-alabama","tag-alabama-news","tag-alabama-weather","tag-alabamas-13","tag-birmingham","tag-block","tag-brittany-decker","tag-brylee-brown","tag-car","tag-carla-wade","tag-central-alabama","tag-channel-13","tag-crash","tag-early-saturday-morning","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-man","tag-florida-news","tag-francisco-morales","tag-guy-rawlings","tag-ishkooda-road-sw","tag-jarvis-robertson","tag-jason-simpson","tag-jefferson-county-coroner","tag-kayla-davis","tag-killed","tag-lisa-crane","tag-miami","tag-michal-higdon","tag-nbc-13","tag-nick-gunter","tag-only-person","tag-pole","tag-powderly","tag-powderly-community","tag-sarah-killian","tag-scott-carpenter","tag-sylvie-sparks","tag-utility-pole","tag-vehicle","tag-wreck","tag-wvtm","tag-wvtm-13","tag-wvtm-news-13","tag-wvtm-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454674","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=454674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}