{"id":6131,"date":"2012-03-30T13:54:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T19:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2012-03-30T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T19:55:00","slug":"driver-killed-trying-to-beat-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/03\/driver-killed-trying-to-beat-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Killed <BR> Trying to Beat Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6132\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Wreckage-of-2007-Honda-Odyssey-e1333137198831.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6132\" title=\"Wreckage of 2007 Honda Odyssey\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Wreckage-of-2007-Honda-Odyssey-e1333137198831.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wreckage of 2007 Honda Odyssey                       (Photo Courtesy of WPTV)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A 61-year-old woman died this morning when she tried to beat an approaching train that struck her mini-van.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at 7:30 a.m. at Southern and West Sugar House Road, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue spokesman Capt. Don DeLucia said.<\/p>\n<p>Arlene J. Gallo, 16 Calvin Ave, Lehigh Acres, was driving a 2007 Honda Odyssey east on Southern Boulevard.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. Sugar train hauling 29 empty train cars was heading south on the tracks, according to a Florida Highway Patrol crash report released this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The red flashing lights, audible signal and the crossing arm were all activated while the train was approaching.<\/p>\n<p>The front of the train hit the driver&#8217;s side of the Odyssey. Gallo was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Driving the train was 64-year-old Leland F. Webster of Okeechobee. He and his 60-year-old passenger Merle W. Phillips, also of Okeechobee, were not injured in the crash, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>The train was stopped on the tracks blocking both eastbound and westbound lanes of Southern, also known as State Road 80, for more than two hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 61-year-old woman died this morning when she tried to beat an approaching train that struck her mini-van. The crash happened at 7:30 a.m. at Southern and West Sugar House&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131"}],"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=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}