{"id":43507,"date":"2024-03-29T11:24:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=43507"},"modified":"2024-03-29T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:24:25","slug":"fatal-crash-investigation-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/03\/29\/fatal-crash-investigation-28\/","title":{"rendered":"FATAL CRASH INVESTIGATION\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, March 28, 2024, at approximately 11:36 a.m., officers responded to a traffic crash involving a white Hyundai SUV and a black Suzuki motorcycle in the 2100 block of East Edgewood Drive. Just before the crash, the Suzuki was headed westbound on East Edgewood Drive and the Hyundai was exiting a parking lot in that area from the north side of the roadway. The Hyundai proceeded from the parking lot across the westbound lanes of travel, coming to a stop in the inside lane, waiting for eastbound traffic.&nbsp;The motorcycle then impacted the Hyundai which separated the driver from the motorcycle.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fatal-crash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fatal-crash.jpg 400w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fatal-crash-300x225.jpg 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lakeland Police Department Patrol Units, Polk County Fire Rescue, and the Lakeland Fire Department all arrived on the scene to begin life-saving measures. The motorcyclist was transported to Lakeland Regional Health where he was pronounced deceased by medical professionals. The driver of the Hyundai did not sustain any injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The roadway was shut down for approximately two 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 Emily Suttle at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:emily.suttle@lakelandgov.net\">emily.suttle@lakelandgov.net<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hyundai Driver:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anna Baez Medina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Age: 41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland, FL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Motorcyclist:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cody Ingram<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Age: 22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland, FL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, March 28, 2024, at approximately 11:36 a.m., officers responded to a traffic crash involving a white Hyundai SUV and a black Suzuki motorcycle in the 2100 block of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133,"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":[298],"class_list":["post-43507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-fatal-crash-investigation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43507","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=43507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}