{"id":48842,"date":"2025-11-16T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/48842\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:35:07","slug":"state-road-78-crash-claims-life-of-66-year-old-bicyclist-near-pacific-ave-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/48842\/","title":{"rendered":"State Road 78 crash claims life of 66-year-old bicyclist near Pacific Ave | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tragic accident occurred on State Road 78 near the Pacific Avenue intersection when a 66-year-old bicyclist was struck by a car.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the bicyclist was attempting to cross traffic when she entered the direct path of an oncoming vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The car hit the woman, and she was transported to the hospital, where she later died.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the crash, the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office informed WINK News that the westbound lanes were closed, but they have since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tragic accident occurred on State Road 78 near the Pacific Avenue intersection when a 66-year-old bicyclist was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,7692],"class_list":["post-48842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee-county-sheriff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48842","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=48842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}