{"id":9828,"date":"2025-10-13T09:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/?p=9828"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:21:53","slug":"man-killed-in-florida-semi-truck-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/florida-truck-accidents\/man-killed-in-florida-semi-truck-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Killed in Florida Semi-Truck Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAFAYETTE COUNTY, FL &#8211; A collision on County Road 53 involving a semi-truck left one dead late Friday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2025\/10\/10\/sheriff-traffic-county-road-53-lafayette-county-temporarily-diverted-due-traffic-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WCTV reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Florida Highway Patrol, the accident occurred near Northwest Cairo Road just before noon. A 78-year-old man driving a Toyota crossed the center line and crashed head-on into a semi-truck.<\/p>\n<p>The Toyota driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The truck driver sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1XYWOvbpFCiNgtck8znKZRWc57TSLWn4&amp;ehbc=2E312F&amp;noprof=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve suffered injuries in a truck accident caused by someone else&#8217;s negligence, you may be entitled to compensation. The skilled Florida truck accident lawyers at Truck Accident Lawyers LLC will fight for the accountability and compensation you deserve. <a href=\"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact us<\/a> online or call <a href=\"tel:(888)7745836\">(888) 774-5836<\/a> today for your free consultation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAFAYETTE COUNTY, FL &#8211; A collision on County Road 53 involving a semi-truck left one dead late Friday morning, WCTV reports. According to Florida Highway Patrol, the accident occurred near Northwest Cairo Road just before noon. A 78-year-old man driving a Toyota crossed the center line and crashed head-on into a semi-truck. The Toyota driver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida-truck-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9834,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828\/revisions\/9834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}