{"id":38708,"date":"2016-02-04T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T01:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=38708"},"modified":"2016-02-04T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T01:39:00","slug":"fatal-lehigh-crash-closes-leeland-heights-blvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/02\/fatal-lehigh-crash-closes-leeland-heights-blvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Lehigh Crash Closes <br>Leeland Heights Blvd."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-34761\" title=\"head on crash\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/head-on-crash-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/head-on-crash-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/head-on-crash.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A fatal head-on crash occurred in Lehigh Acres Thursday evening, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at the intersection of\u00a0Leeland Heights Boulevard and Greenwood Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The eastbound lanes of Leeland Heights Blvd. have been blocked.<\/p>\n<p>One witness on the scene says that one of the drivers had to be extricated by Lehigh Acres Fire Dept with the Jaws of Life.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Witness also said a dog\u00a0died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Eye Witnesses also stated that the driver of the silver Chevrolet Camaro had nearly struck several vehicles on Leeland Heights Blvd. prior to crossing the center line and hitting a Nissan Sentra head-on. The driver of the Nissan was transported to Lee Memorial as a traumatic alert.<\/p>\n<p>The roadblock will be closed for a while as FHP investigates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fatal head-on crash occurred in Lehigh Acres Thursday evening, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash happened at the intersection of\u00a0Leeland Heights Boulevard and Greenwood Avenue. The eastbound&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34761,"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\/38708"}],"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=38708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}