{"id":63069,"date":"2026-02-25T18:12:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=63069"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:12:55","slug":"bartow-man-dies-after-crashing-into-back-of-semi-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/02\/25\/bartow-man-dies-after-crashing-into-back-of-semi-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartow man dies after crashing into back of semi-truck"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Bartow man died in the early morning of Feb. 25 in a two-vehicle\u00a0crash in Lake Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0crash\u00a0occurred on State Road 60 West at West Lake Wales Road North, the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 2026 Freightliner semi-truck was heading east on SR 60 when a 2022 Kia K5 sedan, also traveling east, crashed into the back of it for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The driver of the Kia, a 32-year-old Bartow man, was dead when first responders arrived. His name had not been released as of the morning of Feb. 25. A passenger, a 37-year-old Winter Haven woman, was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The driver was not wearing a seatbelt, but the airbags deployed. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Bartow man died in the early morning of Feb. 25 in a two-vehicle\u00a0crash in Lake Wales. The\u00a0crash\u00a0occurred on State Road 60 West at West Lake Wales Road North, the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"14","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDJcL3VubmFtZWQtNS53ZWJwP2ZpdD0xMDI0JTJDNTc3JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiQmFydG93IG1hbiBkaWVzIGFmdGVyIGNyYXNoaW5nIGludG8gYmFjayBvZiBzZW1pLXRydWNrIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.Y0W0-4JTrxEqh4sb0JMwZyhFOUDkJ_qBMsyTXZV07ZkMQ"},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[13817],"class_list":["post-63069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bartow-man-dies-after-crashing-into-back-of-semi-truck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63071,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63069\/revisions\/63071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}