{"id":52451,"date":"2022-03-03T15:27:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=52451"},"modified":"2022-03-03T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:27:13","slug":"pedestrian-killed-child-rushed-to-hospital-after-hit-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/03\/pedestrian-killed-child-rushed-to-hospital-after-hit-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed, child rushed to hospital after hit &#038; run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Highway Patrol troopers are investigating a Lehigh Acres hit-and-run crash that killed one pedestrian and sent a young child to the hospital.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52452 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/crassh-1-300x103.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/crassh-1-300x103.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/crassh-1.png 563w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Troopers said the driver hit an 84-year-old New York man who was carrying a 2-year-old boy while he was trying to walk across Gunnery Road Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The 84-year-old was pronounced dead on the scene. The child was rushed to the hospital, and the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office said he is being considered a trauma alert.<\/p>\n<p>The hit-and-run driver, described as a 20-year-old Lehigh Acres woman, has since been located, according to FHP. The driver\u2019s identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>Gunnery Road from 6th Street West to 12th Street West was shut down while troopers investigated the crash. The road has since reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Highway Patrol troopers are investigating a Lehigh Acres hit-and-run crash that killed one pedestrian and sent a young child to the hospital. Troopers said the driver hit an 84-year-old&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":52452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1120,1119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52451"}],"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=52451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52453,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52451\/revisions\/52453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}