{"id":90270,"date":"2025-12-20T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/90270\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:58:09","slug":"medical-emergency-causes-fatal-car-collision-in-jacksonville-killing-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/90270\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical emergency causes fatal car collision in Jacksonville, killing one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A Jacksonville man has died after a crash that police believe was caused by a medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Around 7:40 a.m. this morning, police were called to a collision at Western Boulevard and Huff Drive in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to officers, the medical crisis may have led to a crash involving two other vehicles, a tree, a drive-thru post, and a sign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities say they found 61-year-old Alan Estus unresponsive in his car and performed life-saving measures until emergency crews arrived. Estus was later pronounced dead in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say one of the cars involved was unoccupied, while the other was struck on its right side. A passenger in the occupied car was taken to the hospital for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information on the collision is asked to call the Jacksonville Police Department at 910-938-6402 or Crime Stoppers at 910-938-3273. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A Jacksonville man has died after a crash that police believe was caused by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[48744,220,48745,2336,2774,5507,3530,116,118,117,15668,4481,4480],"class_list":["post-90270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-alan-estus","tag-car","tag-car-collision","tag-car-crash","tag-collision","tag-death","tag-fatal","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-police-department","tag-nc","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90270","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=90270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}