{"id":27302,"date":"2022-11-23T14:42:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T19:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=27302"},"modified":"2022-11-25T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T21:21:09","slug":"a-27-year-old-man-on-us-98-n-early-tuesday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/11\/23\/a-27-year-old-man-on-us-98-n-early-tuesday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old man dead on US 98 N early Tuesday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 27-year-old man was struck and killed by a vehicle while pushing a shopping cart in the inside northbound lane of U.S. 98 North in Lakeland early Tuesday morning, the Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/death-investigation.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23296\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sheriff&#8217;s Office, in a Tuesday afternoon news release, said the crash occurred shortly before 6 a.m. near Mann Road, just north of Marcum Road,&nbsp;and when first responders arrived, they found Marcus Sullivan, 27, of Lakeland dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detectives said evidence and witness statements indicated that Sullivan was struck from behind by a silver 2011 Honda CRV as he pushed a grocery cart near the highway median.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The driver of the Honda, who was not identified by the Sheriff&#8217;s Office, was not injured. Detectives said&nbsp;it was dark and cloudy at the time of the crash, with no street lighting, and only a moderate amount of light from local businesses. Sullivan was wearing a dark shirt and light-colored pants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investigation shut down part of the highway for about three hours.&nbsp;At this time, the Sheriff&#8217;s Office said it does not seem likely that the driver will be cited or charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old man was struck and killed by a vehicle while pushing a shopping cart in the inside northbound lane of U.S. 98 North in Lakeland early Tuesday morning, the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23296,"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":[3922],"class_list":["post-27302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-a-27-year-old-man-on-us-98-n-early-tuesday-morning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27302","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=27302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}