{"id":47950,"date":"2021-03-21T12:11:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T16:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=47950"},"modified":"2021-03-21T12:11:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T16:11:57","slug":"lehigh-acres-motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-with-motorist-backing-out-of-the-driveway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/03\/lehigh-acres-motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-with-motorist-backing-out-of-the-driveway\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres motorcyclist killed in crash with motorist backing out of the driveway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"323\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fatalcrashgraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fatalcrashgraphic.jpg 323w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fatalcrashgraphic-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A motorcyclist died after a crash when a motorist was backing out of his driveway in Lehigh Acres on Saturday afternoon, Florida Highway Patrol reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to troopers, a 31-year-old Lehigh Acres man was heading east on 8th Street Southwest near Ruth Avenue South about noon when a 55-year-old Lehigh Acres man backed his SUV&nbsp;out of his driveway and into the path of the motorcyclist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The motorcyclist\u00a0was pronounced deceased on the scene. Troopers cited the older driver with a mandatory court appearance for improper backing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcyclist died after a crash when a motorist was backing out of his driveway in Lehigh Acres on Saturday afternoon, Florida Highway Patrol reported.&nbsp; According to troopers, a 31-year-old&hellip; <\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47950"}],"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=47950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47950\/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=47950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}