{"id":13225,"date":"2012-09-13T16:58:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T21:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=13225"},"modified":"2012-09-13T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T21:58:21","slug":"child-struck-by-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/09\/child-struck-by-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Struck by Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old boy was struck by a vehicle in Lehigh Acres just after 8:30 Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13234\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/child-struck-by-vehicle\/img_20120913_113236\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13234\" title=\"IMG_20120913_113236\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20120913_113236-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20120913_113236-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20120913_113236-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20120913_113236.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Location of accident 2505 68th Street West<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The accident happened at the intersection of <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?sugexp=chrome,mod%3D18&amp;q=68th+Street+West+and+Sunshine+Boulevard&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=0x88db71ba278fd7f5:0xfb2f53ac08f3ad0,Sunshine+Blvd+N+%26+68th+St+W,+Lehigh+Acres,+FL&amp;gl=us&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=rfFRUPXaOomnrAHLsIHYDg&amp;ved=0CCEQ8gEwAA\">68th Street West and Sunshine Boulevard<\/a> in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Lehigh Acres Fire Department, the boy was struck by a Toyota Camry, went airborne, smashed the passenger&#8217;s side \u00a0windshield of the vehicle, and landed in the grass on the side of 68th Street W.<\/p>\n<p>The child sustained injuries and was taken to Lee Memorial Trauma Center by Lehigh Acres Fire and Rescue\u00a0Department\u00a0ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>According to Linda Harclerode, the neighborhood watch coordinator for the area stated that &#8220;We have issues with speeders down 68<sup>th<\/sup> Street West. Also, there is no street light at that school bus stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Florida Highway Patrol is investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old boy was struck by a vehicle in Lehigh Acres just after 8:30 Thursday morning. The accident happened at the intersection of 68th Street West and Sunshine Boulevard in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225"}],"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=13225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}