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PCSO deputies and Polk County Fire Rescue responded to a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian on Highway 98 North in Lakeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vehicle involved reportedly fled the scene and was described as possibly a black Honda Accord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emergency crews are evaluating the pedestrian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you witnessed the accident or have information that could help identify the vehicle or driver, please contact the authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PCSO deputies and Polk County Fire Rescue responded to a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian on Highway 98 North in Lakeland. The vehicle involved reportedly fled the scene… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41864,"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":"","_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":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNFwvMDJcL2hpdC1hbmQtcnVuLmpwZz9maXQ9ODg5JTJDNTAwJnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiSElULUFORC1SVU4gIFZFSElDTEUgVlMuIFBFREVTVFJJQU4iLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.3T1LcM97xp5VtI2Kjbhy8r1Z-ozloekPVg0X1JTNR4oMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjRcLzAyXC9oaXQtYW5kLXJ1bi5qcGciLCJ0eHQiOiJISVQtQU5ELVJVTiAgVkVISUNMRSBWUy4gUEVERVNUUklBTiIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.eMLTJLGLH0x9Tbqz1cWJNWnD3QaSJ7R7t4zeyLrULMQMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[16604,1241,15944,16095,15435,15236,16606,16605],"class_list":["post-77625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-highway-98-north","tag-hit-and-run","tag-lakeland-news","tag-pedestrian-accident","tag-polk-county-fire-rescue","tag-polk-county-sheriffs-office","tag-traffic-accident","tag-vehicle-crash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77625","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=77625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77627,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77625\/revisions\/77627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}