PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 A 78-year-old woman was killed Sunday morning after an SUV rolled backward and struck her in a residential driveway in Port St. Lucie, according to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP).<\/p>\n
The incident happened at approximately 10:47 a.m. at 181 SE El Sito Court. A 2016 Lincoln MKX SUV was parked in a residential driveway when the woman was standing outside the vehicle near the open driver’s door.<\/p>\n
The SUV began rolling backward, and the open door struck her, knocking her to the ground. The cause of the rollback remains under investigation.<\/p>\n
Her adult son, 59, was in the passenger seat and had started the vehicle.<\/p>\n
The woman was rushed to Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce, where she was pronounced deceased at 11:19 a.m.<\/p>\n
This is an ongoing investigation. Stay with WPTV for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 A 78-year-old woman was killed Sunday morning after an SUV rolled backward and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-322828","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322828","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=322828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}