{"id":32935,"date":"2014-09-27T19:33:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T23:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=32935"},"modified":"2014-09-27T19:33:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T23:33:46","slug":"pedestrian-struck-and-killed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/09\/pedestrian-struck-and-killed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Struck and Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32936\" title=\"ped hit\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ped-hit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"158\" \/>An 80-year-old woman was hit and killed by an SUV in Lehigh Acres Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at around 7:00 a.m. near the intersection of 16th Street W and Colin Avenue N.<\/p>\n<p>According to Florida Highway Patrol, 22-year-old Jose Ramirez was driving east on 16th Street W. \u00a0At the same time, Shirley Burns was taking a morning walk in the same direction.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez attempted to steer the SUV to the right to avoid hitting Burns, but was unsuccessful. \u00a0The driver&#8217;s sister &#8211; Bridgette Ramirez &#8211; says Jose Ramirez immediately pulled over and called for help.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;It&#8217;s not like he did it on purpose. \u00a0If he did it on purpose, he would have hit and run. \u00a0He didn&#8217;t hit and run. \u00a0He went to go help her. \u00a0I don&#8217;t want them to think we&#8217;re bad people,&#8221; said Bridgette Ramirez, the driver&#8217;s sister.<\/p>\n<p>Burns was taken to Lee Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead. We spoke to Burns&#8217; family who says she was an energetic, loving mom to her eight children.<\/p>\n<p>Alcohol was not a factor in the crash. \u00a0FHP is still investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 80-year-old woman was hit and killed by an SUV in Lehigh Acres Saturday morning. The crash happened at around 7:00 a.m. near the intersection of 16th Street W and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32936,"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\/32935"}],"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=32935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}