{"id":58553,"date":"2023-08-10T11:30:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=58553"},"modified":"2023-08-10T11:30:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:30:28","slug":"a-man-was-killed-in-an-i-75-crash-after-hitting-a-cable-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/08\/a-man-was-killed-in-an-i-75-crash-after-hitting-a-cable-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"A man was killed in an I-75 crash after hitting a cable barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 63-year-old Lehigh Acres man was killed after hitting a cable barrier in the aftermath of a crash on I-75 Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"323\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fatalcrashgraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fatalcrashgraphic.jpg 323w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fatalcrashgraphic-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), a sedan was traveling north on I-75 in the middle lane, south of Bonita Beach Road. A pickup truck was in the left lane, heading in the same direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At around 4:46 p.m., when the sedan switched to the left lane in front of the truck, the truck crashed into the sedan. After the collision, the sedan moved off the road and hit a cable barrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sedan driver was taken to a local hospital and later pronounced dead, FHP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pickup truck driver suffered serious injuries. His current condition is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash remains under investigation by FHP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 63-year-old Lehigh Acres man was killed after hitting a cable barrier in the aftermath of a crash on I-75 Tuesday afternoon. According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2503],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58553"}],"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=58553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58554,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58553\/revisions\/58554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}