{"id":54153,"date":"2022-07-25T21:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T01:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=54153"},"modified":"2022-07-25T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T01:45:08","slug":"a-19-year-old-lehigh-acres-man-died-in-a-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/07\/a-19-year-old-lehigh-acres-man-died-in-a-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old Lehigh Acres man died in a crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 19-year-old Lehigh Acres man died in a crash involving a tow truck and a dump truck Monday morning in North Fort Myers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/A-19-year-old-Lehigh-Acres-man-died-in-a-crash.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/A-19-year-old-Lehigh-Acres-man-died-in-a-crash.png 750w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/A-19-year-old-Lehigh-Acres-man-died-in-a-crash-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash happened around 8 a.m. near Del Prado Boulevard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to investigators, a tow truck traveling east on Mellow Drive crossed over the center line and made contact with an approaching dump truck hauling dirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dump truck overturned and caught fire. The driver of the dump truck died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All lanes of the road are blocked as authorities deal with a diesel spill clean-up. The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Florida Highway Patrol, and Lee County EMS responded to the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name of the truck driver has not been released yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old Lehigh Acres man died in a crash involving a tow truck and a dump truck Monday morning in North Fort Myers. The crash happened around 8 a.m. near&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":54154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1473],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54153"}],"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=54153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54155,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54153\/revisions\/54155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}