{"id":54570,"date":"2025-11-20T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54570\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:14:07","slug":"driver-dies-after-possible-medical-episode-crashing-into-tree-in-pine-hills-fhp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54570\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies after possible medical episode, crashing into tree in Pine Hills, FHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">PINE HILLS, Fla. \u2013 A driver died on Thursday after suffering a possible medical episode and crashing into a tree in Pine Hills, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The crash occurred around 11:30 a.m. along N Hiawassee Road, south of Stardust Lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to a preliminary FHP crash report, the driver was operating a 2022 Toyota Camry and traveling north in a business parking lot when they lost control of the car. As a result, the Toyota left the paved parking lot, entered a ditch, and struck a tree, the report states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The driver was taken to a hospital, where they were pronounced dead, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">FHP is still investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Note: This map depicts the general area of this crash and not necessarily an exact location.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINE HILLS, Fla. \u2013 A driver died on Thursday after suffering a possible medical episode and crashing into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1335,139,141,140,4777,729],"class_list":{"0":"post-54570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-orange-county","9":"tag-orlando","10":"tag-orlando-headlines","11":"tag-orlando-news","12":"tag-pine-hills","13":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54570","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=54570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}