{"id":39846,"date":"2023-12-05T17:25:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=39846"},"modified":"2023-12-05T18:36:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T23:36:08","slug":"fatal-crash-involving-a-school-bus-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/12\/05\/fatal-crash-involving-a-school-bus-update\/","title":{"rendered":"FATAL CRASH INVOLVING A SCHOOL BUS &#8211;\u00a0UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on the evidence at the scene, the school bus was traveling west on West Pipkin Road approaching Medulla Road when, at the same time, the bicyclist was attempting to make a left turn northbound onto Medulla Road from the eastbound left turn lane. The bicyclist crossed into the path of the school bus and was struck.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"323\" height=\"242\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fatalcrashgraphic.jpg?resize=323%2C242&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fatalcrashgraphic.jpg?w=323&amp;ssl=1 323w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fatalcrashgraphic.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eight passengers on the school bus ranged in age from 8 to 11 who attended the South McKeel Academy and McKeel Academy Central. Neither the bus driver nor the passengers were injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The roadway was shut down for approximately 4 hours to process the scene for the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone with information regarding the crash is asked to contact Traffic Crash Investigator Officer Camilo Almeida at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:camilo.almeida@lakelandgov.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">camilo.almeida@lakelandgov.net.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Driver<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nina Lewis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Age: 71<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland, FL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bicyclist:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Male Jaxon Crabtree<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Age: 15<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland, FL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the evidence at the scene, the school bus was traveling west on West Pipkin Road approaching Medulla Road when, at the same time, the bicyclist was attempting to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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":[6957],"class_list":["post-39846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-fatal-crash-involving-a-school-bus-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39846","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=39846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}