{"id":57587,"date":"2023-03-20T22:24:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T02:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=57587"},"modified":"2023-03-20T22:24:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T02:24:19","slug":"12-year-old-pedestrian-killed-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/03\/12-year-old-pedestrian-killed-in-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old pedestrian killed in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 12-year-old boy was killed after being hit by a car while trying to cross the street in Lehigh Acres Friday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"709\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PEDESTRIANFATALITY.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PEDESTRIANFATALITY.jpg 709w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PEDESTRIANFATALITY-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), a car was headed west on Lee Boulevard near Joan Avenue North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At around 9:49 p.m., a 12-year-old boy tried to cross the street at Lee Boulevard with a car quickly approaching. The car hit the boy, putting him in critical condition with serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boy was taken to a local hospital. On Sunday, March 19, 2023, he was pronounced dead, FHP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash remains under investigation at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old boy was killed after being hit by a car while trying to cross the street in Lehigh Acres Friday night. According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57587"}],"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=57587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57589,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57587\/revisions\/57589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}