PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 A Port St. Lucie man is dead after crashing his e-bike into a truck on Tuesday afternoon, according to police. <\/p>\n
Port St. Lucie Police say that the incident occurred at around noon at the intersection of NE Floresta Drive and NE Airoso Road. <\/p>\n
Richard Willis, 35, was driving an e-bike south on the east sidewalk of NE Airoso Boulevard when a pickup truck towing a flat utility trailer was turning from NE Floresta Drive onto NE Airoso Road. As the vehicle was turning right, Willis lost control of the e-bike on the curve of the sidewalk, drove off and hit the metal loading ramp on the side of the trailer. <\/p>\n
Willis was transported to the hospital with serious injuries but was later pronounced dead. <\/p>\n
Police say it appears the truck driver had a green light and was making a proper turn, and the e-bike was traveling at around 30 mph at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 A Port St. Lucie man is dead after crashing his e-bike into a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11398,171,173,172,28786,1402],"class_list":{"0":"post-43851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-e-bike","9":"tag-port-st-lucie","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","12":"tag-richard-willis","13":"tag-st-lucie-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43851","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=43851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}