PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A 14-year-old girl was struck by a car while she was walking in the 3900 block of Southwest Port St. Lucie Boulevard on April 22, according to police reports.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to that address at about 6:53 a.m., and found a girl who sustained injuries, including facial trauma and arm deformities, after being hit by the front passenger side of an oncoming car, according to police reports.<\/p>\n
A car traveling south at an intersection at Southwest Port St. Lucie Boulevard struck the girl as attempted to cross the street, according to police reports.<\/p>\n
The girl, who was conscious and breathing, did not have life-threatening injuries according to St. Lucie County Fire-Rescue personnel. She was transported by air to St. Mary\u2019s Medical Center in West Palm Beach where she was receiving further medical attention and assessment.<\/p>\n
The driver of the vehicle and the passenger were not injured and declined medical treatment.<\/p>\n
The vehicle sustained minor damage and was removed from the scene by the driver, according to police reports.<\/p>\n
The road was temporarily shut down during the investigation but has since re-opened.<\/p>\n
This remains an active investigation as of April 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A 14-year-old girl was struck by a car while she was walking in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[326,171,173,172],"class_list":["post-242313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-martin","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242313","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=242313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}