{"id":3802,"date":"2024-06-07T11:04:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T16:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2024-06-07T11:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T16:04:54","slug":"1-hospitalized-1-killed-after-car-rear-ends-semi-in-fort-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/florida-truck-accidents\/1-hospitalized-1-killed-after-car-rear-ends-semi-in-fort-myers\/","title":{"rendered":"1 hospitalized, 1 killed after car rear-ends semi in Fort Myers\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FORT MYERS, FL \u2013 A 28-year-old woman driving a car rear-ended a semi-truck, which led to her being sent to a hospital and to her passenger\u2019s death Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This collision happened before 4 a.m. on the Alico Road exit ramp along I-75 South, <a href=\"https:\/\/winknews.com\/2024\/06\/07\/deadly-crash-alico-road-exit-ramp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WINK News<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Florida Highway Patrol said the driver of the gold Kia sedan and the semi-driver were both traveling on the same off-ramp. As the drivers continued, the car driver struck the back of the semi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Troopers declared the car passenger, a 21-year-old woman from Lehigh Acres, deceased at the scene.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First responders said the driver, also from Lehigh Acres, was hospitalized for minor wounds. It is unclear if the semi-truck driver was injured.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Troopers shut down the exit ramp for several hours before reopening after 8 a.m. No other details were released at this time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=1yVruJ1vpuGegvAaKacJsDgEndFUApRI&amp;ehbc=2E312F&amp;noprof=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your truck was damaged in a crash caused by another driver, you could be owed compensation when you pursue a claim. 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Schedule a free, no-risk consultation by phone at <strong><a href=\"tel:(888)774-5836\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\" data-feathr-link-aids=\"[&quot;5fd27e600188ed68cef5a757&quot;],5fd27e600188ed68cef5a757\">(888)774-5836<\/a><\/strong> or <a href=\"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>online<\/strong><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, FL \u2013 A 28-year-old woman driving a car rear-ended a semi-truck, which led to her being sent to a hospital and to her passenger\u2019s death Friday.\u00a0 This collision happened before 4 a.m. on the Alico Road exit ramp along I-75 South, WINK News reported.\u00a0 Florida Highway Patrol said the driver of the gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida-truck-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}