{"id":33917,"date":"2014-12-02T22:36:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T03:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=33917"},"modified":"2014-12-03T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T14:28:05","slug":"fatal-crash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/12\/fatal-crash-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Crash (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Updated:<\/p>\n

A 45-year-old Immokalee man died in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday night in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n

It happened just before 9 p.m. at the intersection of SR-82 and Columbus Boulevard. The man has been identified as 45-year-old Francisco J. Contreras.<\/p>\n

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Contreras was driving a Toyota Corolla when he failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection and drove into the path of another Toyota Corolla, driven by 64-year-old Clifford Oliveira, of Cape Coral.<\/p>\n

The vehicle Contreras’ was driving landed in a ditch after the collision. Bystanders and a first responder pulled him out, but he did not survive. Two other passengers in the vehicle received minor injuries.<\/p>\n

The passenger in the other vehicle, 64-year-old Elizabeth Oliveira, of Cape Coral, was transported to Lee Memorial Hospital with serious injuries. The driver of the vehicle received minor injuries.<\/p>\n

SR-82 was closed in both directions for approximately 4 hours while troopers investigated.<\/p>\n

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A fatal two-vehicle crash unfolded Tuesday shortly after 9 pm in Lehigh Acres – at Columbus Boulevard and SR-82.<\/p>\n

One of the vehicles went into the water of a canal where bystanders and a first responder pulled out the driver who did not survive. The other driver was transported to Lee Memorial Hospital with traumatic injuries.<\/p>\n

Two other people received minor injuries in the crash.<\/p>\n

Road blockage was reported on both lanes of SR-82 from Eisenhower Boulevard to Columbus Boulevard and all drivers were being diverted along Meadow Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Updated: A 45-year-old Immokalee man died in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday night in Lehigh Acres. It happened just before 9 p.m. at the intersection of SR-82 and Columbus Boulevard. The… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33917"}],"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=33917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}