{"id":63514,"date":"2026-03-08T20:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=63514"},"modified":"2026-03-08T21:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:12:50","slug":"a-29-year-old-motorcyclist-from-plant-city-identified-by-the-polk-county-sheriffs-office-as-justin-fuller-was-killed-on-saturday-night-march-7-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/03\/08\/a-29-year-old-motorcyclist-from-plant-city-identified-by-the-polk-county-sheriffs-office-as-justin-fuller-was-killed-on-saturday-night-march-7-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"A 29-year-old motorcyclist from Plant City, identified by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office as Justin Fuller, was killed on Saturday night, March 7, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tragic story. A 29-year-old motorcyclist from Plant City, identified by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office as Justin Fuller<\/strong>, was killed on Saturday night, March 7, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The incident occurred around 8:40 p.m.<\/strong> on County Line Road and Gateway Boulevard<\/strong>, just west of Lakeland near the Lakeland Linder International Airport.<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details of the Crash<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • Initial Incident:<\/strong> Fuller was riding a Harley-Davidson northbound when he lost control and crashed for unknown reasons. Investigators noted there was no initial evidence that another vehicle caused his motorcycle to go down.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • The Collision:<\/strong> The crash ejected Fuller approximately 75 feet<\/strong> into the southbound lanes. While he was in the roadway, he was struck by two separate vehicles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Cooperation:<\/strong> The drivers of both vehicles remained at the scene and are cooperating with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Investigation:<\/strong> Deputies found a helmet near Fuller\u2019s body, but they are still investigating whether he was wearing it at the moment of the crash.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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    County Line Road was closed for approximately four hours while the Traffic Homicide Unit processed the scene.<\/sup> The investigation into what caused him to lose control of the motorcycle is still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Tragic story. A 29-year-old motorcyclist from Plant City, identified by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office as Justin Fuller, was killed on Saturday night, March 7, 2026. The incident occurred around… <\/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":"12","_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAxOVwvMDZcL2ZhdGFsY3Jhc2hncmFwaGljLmpwZz9maXQ9MzIzJTJDMjQyJnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiQSAyOS15ZWFyLW9sZCBtb3RvcmN5Y2xpc3QgZnJvbSBQbGFudCBDaXR5LCBpZGVudGlmaWVkIGJ5IHRoZSBQb2xrIENvdW50eSBTaGVyaWZmJiM4MjE3O3MgT2ZmaWNlIGFzIEp1c3RpbiBGdWxsZXIsIHdhcyBraWxsZWQgb24gU2F0dXJkYXkgbmlnaHQsIE1hcmNoIDcsIDIwMjYiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.g1dqUiN-w3p7kpgBazUQxHj0dzwBgybsu90w1YcOG3EMQ"},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[13094,13985,13988,13986,13987],"class_list":["post-63514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-13094","tag-a-29-year-old-motorcyclist-from-plant-city","tag-identified-by-the-polk-county-sheriffs-office-as-justin-fuller","tag-march-7","tag-was-killed-on-saturday-night"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63514","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=63514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63531,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63514\/revisions\/63531"}],"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=63514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}