{"id":78705,"date":"2026-09-07T00:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=78705"},"modified":"2026-09-07T00:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:33:16","slug":"pediatric-trauma-alert-crash-in-lakeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/09\/07\/pediatric-trauma-alert-crash-in-lakeland\/","title":{"rendered":"PEDIATRIC TRAUMA ALERT \u2014 CRASH IN LAKELAND"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Polk County Fire Rescue and Lakeland Fire are on the scene of a two-vehicle crash near South Central Avenue and Sikes Boulevard in Lakeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initial information indicates four patients are involved, with one pediatric patient declared a trauma alert. There is also reported entrapment following the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\ud83d\udea7\" The roadway is currently blocked. Drivers should avoid the area and expect delays while emergency crews work the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Polk County Fire Rescue and Lakeland Fire are on the scene of a two-vehicle crash near South Central Avenue and Sikes Boulevard in Lakeland. Initial information indicates four patients are… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58966,"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":"","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":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMTFcL2NyYXNoLndlYnA_Zml0PTEwMjQlMkM1NzYmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJQRURJQVRSSUMgVFJBVU1BIEFMRVJUIFx1MjAxNCBDUkFTSCBJTiBMQUtFTEFORCIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.eKQrhPwVsTRlkqTIUwRvrpK136oQJ_KG204VXBueEr0MQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMTFcL2NyYXNoLndlYnA_Zml0PTEwMjQlMkM1NzYmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJQRURJQVRSSUMgVFJBVU1BIEFMRVJUIFx1MjAxNCBDUkFTSCBJTiBMQUtFTEFORCIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.eKQrhPwVsTRlkqTIUwRvrpK136oQJ_KG204VXBueEr0MQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[237,16291,100,16835,15435,16837,16836,16838],"class_list":["post-78705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-lakeland","tag-car-crash","tag-lakeland-fire-department","tag-pediatric-trauma-alert","tag-polk-county-fire-rescue","tag-sikes-boulevard","tag-south-central-avenue","tag-traffic-delay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78705","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=78705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78707,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78705\/revisions\/78707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}