{"id":16604,"date":"2022-08-22T13:17:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T13:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/11-year-old-bicyclist-hit-killed-by-pickup-truck-in-palm-harbor\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T13:17:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T13:17:23","slug":"11-year-old-bicyclist-hit-killed-by-pickup-truck-in-palm-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=16604","title":{"rendered":"11-year-old bicyclist hit, killed by pickup truck in Palm Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">PALM HARBOR \u2014 The driver of a pickup truck veered onto a sidewalk along U.S. 19 and fatally struck an 11-year-old boy who was riding a bicycle Sunday, troopers said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A 21-year-old Tampa man was driving a Dodge pickup truck towing a boat trailer north on US 19 south of Grand Cypress Boulevard in Palm Harbor around 5:30 p.m. when he approached slow-moving traffic, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3518.965781952521!2d-82.7398147!3d28.1170734!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x88c28d573450c71f%3A0xc1dc3604b05f0ca7!2sUS-19%20%26%20Grand%20Cypress%20Blvd%2C%20Palm%20Harbor%2C%20FL%2034684!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1661167135372!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The driver of the pickup swerved to avoid a crash and hit the boy, who was riding his bicycle southbound on a sidewalk on the east side of the road, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The boy, who lived in Lutz, was taken to an area hospital where he died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The driver of the pickup and his passenger, a 57-year-old Tampa man, were not injured, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Highway Patrol did not release any further information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This is a developing story.  Stay with tampabay.com for updates.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/breaking-news\/2022\/08\/22\/11-year-old-bicyclist-struck-killed-by-pickup-in-palm-harbor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALM HARBOR \u2014 The driver of a pickup truck veered onto a sidewalk along U.S. 19 and fatally struck an 11-year-old boy who was riding a bicycle Sunday, troopers said. A 21-year-old Tampa man was driving a Dodge pickup truck towing a boat trailer north on US 19 south of Grand Cypress Boulevard in Palm Harbor around 5:30 p.m. when he approached slow-moving traffic, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The driver of the pickup swerved to avoid a crash and hit the boy, who was riding his bicycle southbound on a sidewalk on the east side of the road,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}