{"id":256475,"date":"2026-07-31T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256475\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:56:07","slug":"driver-killed-after-vehicle-strikes-tree-in-florence-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256475\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed after vehicle strikes tree in Florence Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLORENCE COUNTY S.C. (WPDE) \u2014 Authorities are investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash that occurred early Thursday morning in the Scranton area.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the crash happened in the 900 block of Sam Lee Road.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/local\/horry-co-jury-acquits-man-in-2021-shooting-that-injured-infant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Horry Co. jury acquits man in 2021 shooting that injured infant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the vehicle&#8217;s driver was the only occupant when the vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree, according to the Florence County Coroner&#8217;s Office. <\/p>\n<p>The driver&#8217;s identity has not been released pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLORENCE COUNTY S.C. (WPDE) \u2014 Authorities are investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash that occurred early Thursday morning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-256475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}