{"id":8878,"date":"2011-08-01T18:48:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T22:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8878"},"modified":"2011-08-01T18:48:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T22:48:21","slug":"teen-dies-after-being-hit-by-pickup-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8878","title":{"rendered":"Teen Dies After Being Hit By Pickup Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening, shortly after 8 p.m., a Tampa teenager died after being struck by a pickup truck. The truck was driven by 31-year-old <strong>Cornelius Williams,<\/strong> of Seffner.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the accident occurred on U. S. Highway 301 near Bloomingdale Avenue. Police said 14-year-old <strong>Morris Taylor, Jr.,<\/strong> and <strong>Elijah Anderson, Jr.,<\/strong> 15, were riding their bicycles single file on U. S. 301.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris <\/strong>reportedly crossed into the path of the 2008 Dodge Ram pickup truck driven by <strong>Williams. Morris<\/strong> was thrown from the bicycle and died at the scene. <strong>Williams<\/strong> received minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anderson <\/strong>left the scene after the accident, but returned a short time later with a parent.\u00a0 He also received minor injuries in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The accident report stated that neither of the bicycles was equipped with lighting required by law. It also stated that boy teenagers were wearing dark clothing at the time of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>No charges have been filed against <strong>Williams.<\/strong> However, the accident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Tampa, <strong>Morris<\/strong> was the son of <strong>Mrs. Vicki Taylor Wallace<\/strong> and <strong>Morris Taylor, Sr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He would have been attending Brandon Academy in the fall as an 8<sup>th<\/sup> grade student. He also attended Hood\u2019s Temple CME Church.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Taylor-Wallace<\/strong> said her son did not have insurance and the family is in need of assistance from the community. The funeral has been tentatively planned for Saturday, August 5<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone wishing to contact <strong>Mrs. Taylor-Wallace<\/strong> can reach her at (813) 900-1537.<\/p>\n<p>Harmon\u2019s Funeral Home is in charge of handling arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening, shortly after 8 p.m., a Tampa teenager died after being struck by a pickup truck. The truck was driven by 31-year-old Cornelius Williams, of Seffner. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the accident occurred on U. S. Highway 301 near Bloomingdale Avenue. Police said 14-year-old Morris Taylor, Jr., and Elijah Anderson, Jr., [&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-8878","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\/8878","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=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}