{"id":12957,"date":"2012-09-06T22:31:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T03:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=12957"},"modified":"2012-09-06T22:31:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T03:31:52","slug":"man-drives-car-into-lehigh-acres-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/09\/man-drives-car-into-lehigh-acres-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Drives Car <br>Into Lehigh Acres Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/man-drives-car-into-lehigh-acres-canal\/car-in-canal1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12959\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12959\" title=\"Car in canal1\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Car-in-canal1-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Car-in-canal1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Car-in-canal1.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A car was removed from a canal on Williams Avenue\u00a0 Thursday morning after a man drove into the canal late the previous night.<\/p>\n<p>According to Florida Highway Patrol, Timothy Matejkovic was driving north on Williams Avenue, which dead-ends at the canal.<\/p>\n<p>Matejkovic continued driving his Acura past the dead-end and into the canal around 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Matejkovic told FHP that he yelled for help all night until a neighbor found him in the\u00a0 morning and called the Sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Acres Fire Department crews sent a ladder down to the man who was sitting on top of the submerged car.<\/p>\n<p>He was transported to Lehigh Regional Hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>According to FHP reports, the incident was not alcohol related and Matejkovic was charged with careless driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A car was removed from a canal on Williams Avenue\u00a0 Thursday morning after a man drove into the canal late the previous night. According to Florida Highway Patrol, Timothy Matejkovic&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}