{"id":30843,"date":"2023-03-06T11:47:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=30843"},"modified":"2023-03-06T11:47:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:47:57","slug":"37-year-old-auburndale-man-killed-crossing-i-4-on-foot-early-monday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/03\/06\/37-year-old-auburndale-man-killed-crossing-i-4-on-foot-early-monday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"37-year-old Auburndale man killed crossing I-4 on foot early Monday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A pedestrian was fatally struck by a tractor-trailer on eastbound Interstate 4 near Lakeland Hills Boulevard early Monday morning, causing an hours-long traffic backup that extended to Socrum Loop Road during rush hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FATALITY-INVOLVING-A-PEDESTRIAN-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FATALITY-INVOLVING-A-PEDESTRIAN-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FATALITY-INVOLVING-A-PEDESTRIAN-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FATALITY-INVOLVING-A-PEDESTRIAN-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FATALITY-INVOLVING-A-PEDESTRIAN.jpg 1280w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release that the accident happened at milepost 38 shortly after 3 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FHP said a 37-year-old Auburndale man was on the outside shoulder of the interstate and attempted to cross. When he reached the center lane, he was struck by a tractor-trailer driven by a 39-year-old Palm River man. He was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FHP does not release names, and no other information was provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of 7:30 a.m., traffic on eastbound I-4 was snarled, and traffic was significantly slowed on a primary alternate route \u2014 Lakeland Hills. By 9:30, both roadways were clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian was fatally struck by a tractor-trailer on eastbound Interstate 4 near Lakeland Hills Boulevard early Monday morning, causing an hours-long traffic backup that extended to Socrum Loop Road&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26703,"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":[4692],"class_list":["post-30843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-37-year-old-auburndale-man-killed-crossing-i-4-on-foot-early-monday-morning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30843","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}