{"id":51861,"date":"2022-01-03T23:03:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T04:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=51861"},"modified":"2022-01-03T23:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T04:14:52","slug":"lehigh-acres-man-causes-3-car-crash-after-fatal-medical-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/01\/lehigh-acres-man-causes-3-car-crash-after-fatal-medical-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres man causes 3-car crash after fatal medical episode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Lehigh Acres man caused a three-car crash while experiencing a medical episode that killed him, Florida Highway Patrol reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Police-Line.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6561\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Troopers said the 57-year-old man was headed south on Treeline Road near Terminal Access Road near Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers about 1:40 p.m. Monday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He failed to slow, crashing into a car driven by a 38-year-old Bonita Springs woman. She sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man&#8217;s car then rear-ended a car driven by a 60-year-old Fort Myers woman, troopers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man was taken to a hospital, where officials declared him dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is one of the first two Lee County road fatalities of 2022. Both occurred on Monday, three days into the year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office was investigating a fatal golf cart crash on Pine Island.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh Acres man caused a three-car crash while experiencing a medical episode that killed him, Florida Highway Patrol reports. Troopers said the 57-year-old man was headed south on Treeline&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1002],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51861"}],"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=51861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51866,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51861\/revisions\/51866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}