Deputies say the man’s motorcycle crashed for unknown reasons before he was hit by two vehicles.<\/p>\n
LAKELAND, Fla. \u2014 A Hillsborough County motorcyclist is dead after he was hit by two vehicles in Polk County Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded around 8:40 p.m. to County Line Road and Gateway Boulevard, west of Lakeland, where it was initially reported a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle.<\/p>\n
When officials arrived, they realized the man, identified as 29-year-old Justin Fuller of Plant City, was actually riding a motorcycle when it crashed for unknown reasons. Detectives found no evidence that the motorcycle was hit by another vehicle.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe Fuller was driving northbound on County Line Road when it went down, ejected him around 75-feet and came to a stop in the southbound lane, where he was hit by two vehicles.<\/p>\n
The drivers of both vehicles remained at the scene and cooperated with the investigation.<\/p>\n
PCSO said a motorcycle helmet was found near Fuller, but it’s unclear if he was wearing it at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n
County Line Road was closed in both directions for around four hours while officials conducted an evidence search, processing and investigation.<\/p>\n
The investigation into this crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies say the man’s motorcycle crashed for unknown reasons before he was hit by two vehicles. LAKELAND, Fla.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-183879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-tampa","9":"tag-tampa-headlines","10":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}