{"id":41593,"date":"2016-11-06T11:28:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T16:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41593"},"modified":"2016-11-06T11:28:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T16:28:44","slug":"fatal-head-on-crash-shuts-down-sr-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/11\/fatal-head-on-crash-shuts-down-sr-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Head-On Crash Shuts Down SR-82"},"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\" \/>State Route 82 in Lehigh Acres was completely blocked for several hours after a fatal head-on collision early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It happened just after 1 a.m. at the intersection with Rue Labeau Circle just west of the Parkdale.<\/p>\n<p>Two trucks driving in opposing directions in the appropriate lanes were approaching each other. Reports say for unknown reasons, the driver of one truck drove into the path of the other and hit it head on.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger in the second truck, John Joseph Leary of Bradenton, was pronounced dead at the scene by Lehigh Acres Fire Department. Troopers say he did not have a seatbelt on.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of that vehicle, a 16-year-old, was transported to Lee Memorial Hospital for serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver that swerved into the other lane was also transported to Lee Memorial Hospital with serious injuries. It is unknown whether this is an alcohol-related crash.<\/p>\n<p>Charges for this crash are pending as the investigation into this crash is ongoing by FHP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Route 82 in Lehigh Acres was completely blocked for several hours after a fatal head-on collision early Sunday morning. It happened just after 1 a.m. at the intersection with&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\/41593"}],"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=41593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41593\/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=41593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}