{"id":15651,"date":"2012-07-16T16:26:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T20:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15651"},"modified":"2012-07-16T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T20:26:10","slug":"accident-claims-life-of-young-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15651","title":{"rendered":"Accident Claims Life Of Young Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A traffic accident early Friday morning claimed the life of a young Tampa father. The accident occurred at the intersection of N. 56th Street and Harney Road at approximately 2:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Highway Patrol, <strong>Terrance Price Davis, Jr.<\/strong>, 28, was driving a 1996 Nissan Maxima northbound on N. 56th Street. As he approached the intersection of Harney Road, the vehicle left the roadway, for unknown reasons. After leaving the roadway, the front of the vehicle struck a metal utility light pole and then a concrete power pole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Davis<\/strong> was transported to Tampa General Hospital, where he died of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A Tampa native, <strong>Davis<\/strong> was the son of<strong> Mr<\/strong>. and<strong> Mrs. Terrance (Sonya Gyton) Davis, Sr.<\/strong> He attended the local schools of Hillsborough County. He had returned to school and was pursuing his GED at the time of his death, his wife, <strong>Mrs. Jasmine Davis<\/strong>, said.<\/p>\n<p>He has been employed at his family\u2019s business, Davis Masonry and Design, for several years since becoming an adult.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Davis<\/strong> said they were married at the new Bethel Temple of Deliverance Apostolic Church, were they are both members. They were preparing to celebrate their 12th anniversary. They are the parents of two children, an 11-year-old son and a 9-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Davis<\/strong> said her husband enjoyed spending time with his children and family, fishing, and basketball. She also said he always read his bible. She last spoke with him shortly before the accident and he told her he was on his way home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a wonderful person. He had a very good heart and he was always doing something for other people. He was a wonderful, wonderful man,\u201d<strong> Mrs. Davis<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services for Davis were incomplete at press time. Harmon\u2019s Funeral Home is in charge of handling arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor A traffic accident early Friday morning claimed the life of a young Tampa father. The accident occurred at the intersection of N. 56th Street and Harney Road at approximately 2:30 a.m. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Terrance Price Davis, Jr., 28, was driving a 1996 Nissan Maxima [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}