{"id":57975,"date":"2023-05-22T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=57975"},"modified":"2023-05-22T19:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T23:26:13","slug":"riverdale-high-student-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-day-after-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/05\/riverdale-high-student-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-day-after-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverdale High student killed in motorcycle crash day after graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Family and friends are remembering a young life gone too soon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"411\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/dg.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/dg.png 411w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/dg-300x258.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dustin Gulsby<br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lehigh Acres Gazette has confirmed that 18-year-old Dustin Gulsby of Lehigh Acres passed away Sunday night in a motorcycle crash on State Road 82 and Sunshine Boulevard, just one day after graduating high school.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were so proud of him. It was just so great to see him complete 12th grade and walk that stage. We couldn\u2019t have asked for anything better,\u201d said Tricia Black, Gulsby\u2019s stepmother.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black said Saturday night Dustin graduated from Riverdale High School and crossed the stage at Alico Arena. He had plans to start work right after graduation alongside his grandmother. His stepmom described him as a bright young man who loved dirt bikes, cars, and motorcycles.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cHe was just loved by all of his step-siblings and his sister and his whole family,\u201d said Black.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to FHP, the crash happened when&nbsp;a 22-year-old Cape Coral woman, was driving east on SR 82 in a Kia Forte, attempting to make a left turn onto a frontage road, west of Sunshine Boulevard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report said Gulsby smashed into the right side of the Kia Forte and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family and friends are remembering a young life gone too soon.&nbsp; Lehigh Acres Gazette has confirmed that 18-year-old Dustin Gulsby of Lehigh Acres passed away Sunday night in a motorcycle&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57975"}],"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=57975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57977,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57975\/revisions\/57977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}