{"id":7787,"date":"2011-06-20T15:38:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T19:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7787"},"modified":"2011-06-20T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T20:08:56","slug":"fight-at-party-ends-with-man-hit-by-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7787","title":{"rendered":"Fight At Party Ends With Man Hit By Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Police were called to Columbus Drive and Massachusetts Avenue Sunday night on a report of a hit and run incident.<\/p>\n<p>Police reported that <strong>Benjamin York<\/strong>, 47, was hit by a vehicle as the driver was leaving a party. The driver was involved in a fight with several people at the party and was trying to leave the altercation, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said <strong>York<\/strong> followed the driver to his car to calm him down, but as the driver fled from the scene, he struck <strong>York<\/strong>. <strong>York <\/strong>fell to the pavement and was caught and dragged under the rear of the vehicle for 420 feet before being dislodged.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>***Look for full story in Tuesday&#8217;s<em> Sentinel<\/em>***<\/strong><strong>[private]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The suspect fled north on Ola Avenue. <strong>York <\/strong>was hospitalized and is reported to be in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the vehicle that hit <strong>York<\/strong> is described as a white Mercury with a broken windshield and a broken tail light lens with red tape over the damage. That vehicle was later found in the 7400 block of South O\u2019Brien.<strong>[\/private]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Police were called to Columbus Drive and Massachusetts Avenue Sunday night on a report of a hit and run incident. Police reported that Benjamin York, 47, was hit by a vehicle as the driver was leaving a party. The driver was involved in a fight with several people at the party and was trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}