{"id":45416,"date":"2019-11-22T13:19:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T18:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=45416"},"modified":"2019-11-22T13:20:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T18:20:17","slug":"mother-and-son-killed-in-early-morning-hit-and-run-crash-on-state-road-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/11\/mother-and-son-killed-in-early-morning-hit-and-run-crash-on-state-road-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother and son killed in early morning hit-and-run crash on State Road 82"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Katherine Cujas, 46, and Ronald Cujas, 26, both of North Fort\nMyers were the fatal victims of the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Florida Highway Patrol, a truck blew a tire on\nHighway 82 and was on the side of the road when a second person stopped to\nassist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/download-1-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/download-1-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/download-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/download-1-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/download-1-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver responsible for the crash clipped the rear of the two\nvehicles on the side of the road then hit two people, killing both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FHP says a possible description of the vehicle is a red 3500 Dodge\npickup truck. Below is an edited photo of what the vehicle may look like based\non FHP\u2019s very specific description.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dodge-truck-3500.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dodge-truck-3500.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dodge-truck-3500-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dodge-truck-3500-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dodge-truck-3500-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dodge-truck-3500-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Helicopters are flying near the scene to see if the vehicle was\nditched nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forensics are currently on scene assisting in the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FHP says Hwy 82 will be closed down for possibly another 2 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Cujas, 46, and Ronald Cujas, 26, both of North Fort Myers were the fatal victims of the crash. According to Florida Highway Patrol, a truck blew a tire on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45418,"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\/45416"}],"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=45416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}