{"id":38718,"date":"2023-11-11T13:47:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T18:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=38718"},"modified":"2023-11-11T13:48:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T18:48:41","slug":"florida-trooper-and-lakeland-man-and-ocala-woman-suffer-serious-injuries-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/11\/11\/florida-trooper-and-lakeland-man-and-ocala-woman-suffer-serious-injuries-in-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida trooper and Lakeland man and Ocala woman suffer serious injuries in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A crash in an active construction zone on Interstate 275 in Tampa left a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, a Lakeland man, and an Ocala woman with serious injuries early Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"586\" height=\"290\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" data-id=\"38720\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-44-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-44-11.png 586w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-44-11-300x148.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"282\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-id=\"38719\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-44a-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-44a-7.png 600w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-44a-7-300x141.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wreck occurred around 4:43 a.m. on northbound I-275, just south of Interstate 4, troopers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a preliminary FHP crash report, \u201cthe left lanes\u201d were closed in the area. A trooper in a marked patrol car with its emergency lights activated was stationary in the construction zone, assisting with the lane closures, troopers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Kia Forte then ran over traffic cones and into the work zone, striking an arrow board before rear-ending the FHP patrol car, the report states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The driver of the Kia, who troopers said is \u201csuspected of impairment,\u201d was identified as a 24-year-old Lakeland man. His passenger was identified as a 25-year-old Ocala woman, according to FHP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"509\" data-id=\"38721\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PatrolCarCrash4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PatrolCarCrash4.jpg 576w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PatrolCarCrash4-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"586\" data-id=\"38722\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PatrolCarCrash1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PatrolCarCrash1.jpg 576w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PatrolCarCrash1-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both of the Kia\u2019s occupants, as well as the trooper in the patrol car \u2014 identified as a 28-year-old Army veteran who has been with FHP for two years \u2014 were taken to a hospital for treatment of serious injuries, troopers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Toxicology results are pending for the Kia\u2019s driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No other details have been shared at the time of this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crash in an active construction zone on Interstate 275 in Tampa left a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, a Lakeland man, and an Ocala woman with serious injuries early Saturday.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38719,"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":[6699],"class_list":["post-38718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-florida-trooper-and-lakeland-man-and-ocala-woman-suffer-serious-injuries-in-crash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38718","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=38718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38724,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38718\/revisions\/38724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}