{"id":76014,"date":"2025-12-08T20:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76014\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:53:07","slug":"jacksonville-port-authority-executive-dies-in-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76014\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Port Authority executive dies in car accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chief operating officer for the <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/06\/23\/jaxport-ceo-receives-5-year-contract-extension-with-550000-base-pay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville Port Authority<\/a> has died in a car accident.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h879635-p2\">JAXPORT confirmed the death of COO James Bennett in a statement Monday. Bennett had worked for the authority since 2017 and served as COO since 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the unexpected passing of our colleague and friend, James Bennett. James dedicated his life to improving the quality of life for people in Northeast Florida, and our entire community is better for his service,\u201d JaxPort spokesperson Chelsea Kavanagh wrote in the statement. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2025\/dec\/08\/jacksonville-port-authority-executive-james-bennett-dies-in-car-accident\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chief operating officer for the Jacksonville Port Authority has died in a car accident. JAXPORT confirmed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-76014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014","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=76014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}