{"id":53760,"date":"2026-10-23T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=53760"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:29:24","slug":"steinhatchee-man-killed-in-crash-son-remains-in-icu-in-gainesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=53760","title":{"rendered":"Steinhatchee man killed in crash, son remains in ICU in Gainesville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-23-John-Driggers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-23-John-Driggers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-23-John-Driggers.jpg 496w, https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-23-John-Driggers-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Driggers Jr., 49, of Steinhatchee, was killed in a one-vehicle crash Monday night, Oct. 19, in Dixie County near the intersection of SW Highway 361 and SW 844th Street. His son, Trevor Driggers, 28, remains in the intensive care unit at UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville and faces \u201ca long road to recovery.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Driggers Jr. could meet you once and immediately claim you as family and as a best friend \u2014 whether you wanted him to or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Driggers Jr. could meet you once and immediately claim you as family and as a best friend \u2014 whether you wanted him to or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-53760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-automobile-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53762,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53760\/revisions\/53762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}