FORT PIERCE \u2013 A 36-year-old Hobe Sound man was killed on June 17 when he was struck by a car at U.S. 1 near North 3rd Street in Fort Pierce, according to Florida Highway Patrol reports.<\/p>\n
A 2020 silver Toyota Prius, driven by a 60-year-old Vero Beach man, was headed north on U.S. 1 at about 11:57 p.m., June 17, when he hit a man, who was walking south in the northbound outside lane of U.S. 1, approaching North 3rd Street, according to FHP reports.<\/p>\n
The pedestrian was thrown onto the car\u2019s hood into the windshield before rolling off onto the pavement, according to FHP reports.<\/p>\n
When the Toyota stopped, a second vehicle drove over the top of the pedestrian\u2019s legs and continued north, according to FHP reports.<\/p>\n
The pedestrian was taken to HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce, where he was pronounced dead at 12:18 a.m., according to FHP reports.<\/p>\n
The Toyota driver was not injured in the accident, according to FHP reports.<\/p>\n
FHP has not released the name of the pedestrian, pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n
That section of road was shut down for a brief period but was re-opened.<\/p>\n
The accident remains under investigation by FHP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE \u2013 A 36-year-old Hobe Sound man was killed on June 17 when he was struck by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-314500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314500","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=314500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}