HAINES CITY, FL (April 17, 2026) – A 24-year-old woman, Jovanna Saily Reyes, was killed in a crash involving a semi-truck early Friday morning just outside Haines City.
According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Reyes was driving a Hyundai Sonata shortly before 12:30 a.m. when her vehicle collided with the trailer of a Volvo semi-truck that was making a U-turn to head north on U.S. Route 27.
Authorities said the Hyundai traveled underneath the truck, crossed the median, left the roadway, and struck a fence before crashing into a wall at the First Apostolic Pentecostal Church on B Moore Road.
Reyes was pronounced dead at the scene.
The semi-truck driver, a 24-year-old woman from Tampa, was not injured.
