{"id":58771,"date":"2023-09-26T13:54:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T17:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=58771"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:54:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T17:54:29","slug":"pickup-truck-driver-killed-after-smashing-into-traffic-light-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/09\/pickup-truck-driver-killed-after-smashing-into-traffic-light-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickup truck driver killed after smashing into traffic light pole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A motorist died after crashing a pickup truck into a traffic pole while driving on State Road 82 and Gateway Boulevard in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/truck-82.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58772\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash was reported to the Florida Highway Patrol at approximately 1:30 a.m., Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FHP reports that a 43-year-old man from Fort Myers was unable to maintain driving on a single lane, and then crashed into several smaller poles before striking the traffic pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The details of the crash are currently being investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The road was closed for hours, and gradually reopened by late Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A motorist died after crashing a pickup truck into a traffic pole while driving on State Road 82 and Gateway Boulevard in Lehigh Acres. The crash was reported to the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2556],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58771"}],"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=58771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58773,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58771\/revisions\/58773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}