{"id":13368,"date":"2021-07-16T18:24:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T22:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=13368"},"modified":"2021-07-16T18:24:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T22:24:55","slug":"mulberry-man-killed-in-a-single-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/07\/16\/mulberry-man-killed-in-a-single-vehicle-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulberry man killed in a single-vehicle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An 83-year-old Mulberry man died Wednesday afternoon when his pickup truck struck a roadside culvert went airborne for 50 yards and landed on its roof, Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Hwy_37_Fatal_Crash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13369\" width=\"322\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Hwy_37_Fatal_Crash.jpg 660w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Hwy_37_Fatal_Crash-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sheriff&#8217;s Office said in a Thursday news release that Alphonso Newkirk&nbsp;was driving a white&nbsp;2001 Dodge 1500 north on State Road 37 near Cameron Street Wednesday afternoon when he&nbsp;veered to the east shoulder of the highway toward a ditch for unknown reasons.&nbsp;Reports say the pickup struck a street sign and a concrete culvert, which caused it to flip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to the crash along with members of Polk County Fire Rescue, according to a press release. Responders found Newkirk dead at the scene. The Sheriff\u2019s Office said he was not wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State Road 37 South was closed in both directions for approximately three and a half hours.&nbsp;The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 83-year-old Mulberry man died Wednesday afternoon when his pickup truck struck a roadside culvert went airborne for 50 yards and landed on its roof, Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s officials said.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[825],"class_list":["post-13368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-man-killed-in-a-single-vehicle-crash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}