{"id":50675,"date":"2021-09-26T16:03:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T20:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=50675"},"modified":"2021-09-26T16:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T20:03:55","slug":"woman-killed-in-early-morning-hit-and-run-crash-in-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/09\/woman-killed-in-early-morning-hit-and-run-crash-in-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed in early morning hit-and-run crash in Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One woman was killed and a second person injured after a hit-and-run crash in Lehigh Acres Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Hit-and-run-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Hit-and-run-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Hit-and-run-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Hit-and-run-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Hit-and-run.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a car driven by a 39-year-old-man was heading west on SR-82 approaching Ray Avenue S just before 3 a.m. There was one passenger, a 42-year-old woman; both are from Fort Myers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the unknown driver of a second vehicle turned left from eastbound SR-82 onto Ray Ave. S., the 39-year-old man ran a red light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two vehicles collided, and the 42-year-old passenger, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the car and later pronounced dead at Lee Memorial Hospital. The driver suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver of the second vehicle fled the scene and was possibly picked up in a white pickup truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information on this crash is asked to call Florida Highway Patrol at 239-344-1730 or Crime Stoppers at 800-780-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One woman was killed and a second person injured after a hit-and-run crash in Lehigh Acres Sunday morning. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a car driven by a 39-year-old-man&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50675"}],"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=50675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50676,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50675\/revisions\/50676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}