{"id":42409,"date":"2017-01-13T11:19:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T16:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=42409"},"modified":"2017-01-13T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T17:23:53","slug":"fatal-crash-shuts-down-major-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2017\/01\/fatal-crash-shuts-down-major-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Crash Shuts Down Major Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42411\" title=\"Car accident 1132017a\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Car-accident-1132017a-300x133.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Car-accident-1132017a-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Car-accident-1132017a.png 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Written by the Lehigh Acres Gazette Staff<\/p>\n<p>The northbound lanes of Joel Boulevard were shut down for nearly 5 hours following a violent deadly crash.\u00a0The crash happened just south of East 4th Street around 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FHP report vehicle crossed over to the northbound lanes, slamming into a guardrail.<\/p>\n<p>FHP said, Joshua Rubush, 21, of LaBelle, was heading south on Joel Boulevard in a Honda Civic when he failed to negotiate a curve.<\/p>\n<p>According to FHP report, Rubush civic crossed into the opposite lane and slammed into a guardrail, tearing nearly 25 feet of the rail from the ground along with the left side of the vehicle&#8217;s roof.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lehigh Acres Fire and Rescue, Rubush was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers say he was not wearing a seat belt. Alcohol results are pending.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Boulevard northbound was shut down for nearly 5 hours while troopers investigated. All lanes are back open now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by the Lehigh Acres Gazette Staff The northbound lanes of Joel Boulevard were shut down for nearly 5 hours following a violent deadly crash.\u00a0The crash happened just south of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42411,"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\/42409"}],"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=42409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}