{"id":219591,"date":"2018-07-04T10:10:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T14:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/deputy-hospitalized-after-being-hit-by-vehicle\/"},"modified":"2018-07-04T13:36:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T17:36:54","slug":"deputy-hospitalized-after-being-hit-by-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/deputy-hospitalized-after-being-hit-by-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Hospitalized After Being Hit by Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LADY LAKE, Fla.<\/strong> &#8212; A Lake County deputy has been hospitalized after he was struck by a vehicle just before dawn Wednesday morning according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Austin Pringle was headed home at the end of his shift at approximately 6:15 a.m.\u00a0when a call came over the radio in reference to an attempted vehicle burglary in Lady Lake stating the suspects fled on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Pringle decided to investigate the incident before going home and began traveling down Grays Airport Road when he saw a man walking down the street.<\/p>\n<p>Pringle stopped the man to question him and determine if he was involved. While questioning the man, they were both struck by a 2013 Chevy Camaro.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Pringle suffered a head injury and was airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center where he is currently in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who has been identified as 22-year-old Leesburg resident\u00a0Cerontae Hodge, suffered an injury to his leg and was transported to Leesburg Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Hodge told deputies that just before the vehicle struck them, Pringle attempted to push him out of the path of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Camaro, 53-year-old Kim Johnson, told investigators that she saw the headlights of Pringle&#8217;s vehicle and slowed down but did not know it was a police car and did not see the two men standing on the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Highway Patrol report, no alcohol was involved.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators with the Florida Highway Patrol are investigating this incident while deputies investigate the attempted vehicle burglary.<\/p>\n<p>No charges are pending at this time.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #f5f6f5;\">27-year-old Deputy Pringle has been a member of the Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Office since November 2016.<\/span><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>A Lake County deputy is in stable condition after being struck by a vehicle during an investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3246,6,1],"tags":[17,42,3396,696,80,750,3395],"class_list":["post-219591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-accident","tag-deputy","tag-grays-airport-road","tag-lady-lake","tag-lake-county","tag-lcso","tag-stable-condition","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/03\/police-c.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219591","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=219591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}