{"id":54477,"date":"2022-08-18T17:01:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T21:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=54477"},"modified":"2022-08-18T17:01:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T21:01:57","slug":"2-teens-struck-by-vehicle-in-hit-and-run-on-orange-river-blvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/08\/2-teens-struck-by-vehicle-in-hit-and-run-on-orange-river-blvd\/","title":{"rendered":"2 teens struck by vehicle in hit-and-run on Orange River Blvd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Florida Highway Patrol confirms two teenagers were struck by a vehicle Thursday morning at the intersection of Orange River Blvd. and Lorraine Dr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A witness, dropping off his own daughter, reported seeing a boy and girl hit by a car as they approached a bus stop around 6:15 a.m. He said they were Dunbar High School students, given the school&#8217;s proximity to the bus stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"54478\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/download-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/download-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/download-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/download-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/download-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"54480\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/download-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/download-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/download-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/download-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/download-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"351\" height=\"216\" data-id=\"54479\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2-7.png 351w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2-7-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials confirm the children were approximately 16 years of age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FHP is classifying the incident as a hit-and-run. The witness could only say the suspect vehicle was gray in color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teenagers have been taken to an area hospital, where investigators hope to question them after an assessment of their injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A neighbor said he knew an incident like this would happen due to the lack of benches or a special area for students to congregate while waiting for the bus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is assisting while FHP takes the lead of the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Highway Patrol confirms two teenagers were struck by a vehicle Thursday morning at the intersection of Orange River Blvd. and Lorraine Dr. A witness, dropping off his own daughter,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":54480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1551],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54477"}],"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=54477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54481,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54477\/revisions\/54481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}