{"id":32490,"date":"2023-05-31T13:21:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T17:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=32490"},"modified":"2023-05-31T13:21:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T17:21:51","slug":"a-man-driving-atv-hits-2-kids-and-abandons-them-in-polk-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/05\/31\/a-man-driving-atv-hits-2-kids-and-abandons-them-in-polk-county\/","title":{"rendered":"A man driving ATV hits 2 kids and abandons them in Polk County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two children were hit by a man driving an ATV in Wahneta, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"440\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1380.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1380.jpg 770w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1380-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1380-768x439.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two kids, 6 and 8, were riding in a smaller ATV on Monday when deputies say Guy Kolmel hit them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputies say the damage on the fronts of both ATVs suggests it was a head-on crash. Kolhmel was not at the scene of the crash when deputies arrived around 3:08 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kohlmel allegedly fled on foot right after crashing, without helping the children. He reportedly ran into his residence telling a witness that he was not going to go outside, and police were not coming inside the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the sheriff\u2019s office, Kolmel refused to come outside when asked. Deputies eventually entered the home and arrested him for leaving the scene of a crash with injury and resisting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The kids were both airlifted to a hospital. The injuries to the boys are non-life-threatening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investigation is ongoing and additional charges are possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two children were hit by a man driving an ATV in Wahneta, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office. The two kids, 6 and 8, were riding in a smaller&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32491,"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":[14],"tags":[5121],"class_list":["post-32490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a-man-driving-atv-hits-2-kids-and-abandons-them-in-polk-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32490","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=32490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}