{"id":18192,"date":"2021-12-14T00:29:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T05:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=18192"},"modified":"2021-12-14T00:29:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T05:29:49","slug":"polk-county-sheriff-deputies-are-investigating-a-crash-involving-a-man-and-a-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/12\/14\/polk-county-sheriff-deputies-are-investigating-a-crash-involving-a-man-and-a-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County Sheriff deputies are investigating a crash involving a man and a horse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the crash occurred on Anderson Road, between Nichols Road and CR 640.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/police-line-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/police-line-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/police-line-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/police-line-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/police-line.jpg 1200w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputies say Brad Bursler was driving at a high rate of speed and passed at least one vehicle when he struck a horse that was standing in the roadway around 5:30 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brusler\u2019s vehicle was redirected and struck a tree after hitting the horse. Both Brusler and the horse died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bursler\u2019s passenger was taken to a local hospital where he was treated and released. According to the Polk County sheriff\u2019s office, the two men were traveling to work in Seffner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is unknown how the horse got out of its pasture; however, deputies believe a tree limb may have made it possible for the horse to jump over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the crash occurred on Anderson Road, between Nichols Road and CR 640. Deputies say Brad Bursler was driving at a high rate of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17055,"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":[1960],"class_list":["post-18192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-polk-county-sheriff-deputies-are-investigating-a-crash-involving-a-man-and-a-horse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18192","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=18192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}