{"id":53293,"date":"2022-05-18T16:36:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T20:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=53293"},"modified":"2022-05-18T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T20:36:59","slug":"dump-truck-runs-red-light-t-bones-car-and-kills-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/05\/dump-truck-runs-red-light-t-bones-car-and-kills-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dump truck runs red light, T-bones car and kills 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Both occupants of a car were killed when a dump truck running a red light crashed into them at an Olga intersection on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Police-lights.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Police-lights.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Police-lights-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Police-lights-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a dump truck driven by a 55-year-old man from Lehigh Acres was eastbound on Palm Beach Boulevard at around 2:30 p.m. A sedan driven by a 68-year-old man from Alva, with a 71-year-old woman from the same town as his passenger, was northbound on River Hall Parkway and was stopped at a red traffic signal. The Alva man\u2019s traffic signal turned green and he drove his car into the intersection when the dump truck entered on a red traffic signal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dump truck T-boned the left side of the car, which came to an uncontrolled stop at the southeast corner of the intersection. The dump truck came to a controlled stop in the inside lane of eastbound Palm Beach Boulevard, east of the intersection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver and passenger of the car were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash by Lee County EMS. The driver of the dump truck was issued a traffic citation for failing to obey a traffic control signal resulting in serious bodily injury or death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FHP\u2019s homicide unit continues to investigate this crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both occupants of a car were killed when a dump truck running a red light crashed into them at an Olga intersection on Tuesday afternoon. According to the Florida Highway&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1283,1284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53293"}],"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=53293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53295,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53293\/revisions\/53295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}