PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A 35-year-old Port St. Lucie e-bike rider was fatally injured when he hit the loading ramp of a trailer at Northeast Floresta Drive and Northeast Airoso Boulevard in Port St. Lucie on Nov. 11, police said.<\/p>\n
According to Port St. Lucie Police, Richard Kenneth Douglas Willis was riding an e-bike south on the east side of Northeast Airoso Boulevard at about 12:09 p.m., when he struck the loading ramp of a 2018 Dodge Ram pickup truck which was turning north onto Northeast Airoso Boulevard from westbound Northeast Floresta Drive.<\/p>\n
Willis was apparently unable to negotiate the curve on the sidewalk and hit the ramp on the rear passenger side of the 2021 flat utility trailer carrying a skid steer, according to police reports. Willis, who was ejected from the e-bike, sustained serious injuries. He was taken to HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce where he was later pronounced deceased, according to police reports.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Dodge remained on scene and cooperated with the investigation, police said. There was no indication of impairment of the driver, who had a green light and was making a proper turn, according to police reports. Witnesses estimated the e-bike was traveling at about 30 mph just before the crash, according to police reports.<\/p>\n
Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or may have video of the crash is asked to call<\/p>\n
Officer Brian Thompson, traffic homicide investigator, at 772-871-5001 or Treasure Coast Crimestoppers at 800-273-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A 35-year-old Port St. Lucie e-bike rider was fatally injured when he hit the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":{"0":"post-44008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","11":"tag-st_lucie"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44008","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=44008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}