{"id":143944,"date":"2022-10-27T16:53:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T11:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/florida-teen-killed-while-trying-to-aid-a-driver-stuck-in-a-ditch\/"},"modified":"2022-10-27T16:54:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T11:24:02","slug":"florida-teen-killed-while-trying-to-help-a-driver-stuck-in-a-ditch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/florida-teen-killed-while-trying-to-help-a-driver-stuck-in-a-ditch\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Teen Killed while Trying To Help a Driver Stuck In a Ditch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>According to reports, a Florida high school student was involved in an accident on Sunday as he tried to help another driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nick Miner,\u00a018, was in a pickup truck when he stopped on the side of the road to aid a driver who was stuck in a ditch, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Miner was thrown out of her vehicle after a Honda Insight driven a 27-year old woman struck Miner&#8217;s pickup. His truck flipped over and landed on the\u00a0teen, killing him, according to the Florida Highway Patrol and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/east-river-student-killed-crash\/41752366#\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WESH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two young women, both from the same family, were also seriously injured and taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Miner was a senior football quarterback at East River High School. Friends and colleagues are grieving the loss of Miner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It hurts. He was a brother of the family. I wish he was still here,&#8221;Parker Stoner, Miner\u2019s football teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/news\/east-river-high-school-football-qb-killed-in-crash-while-trying-to-help-driver-stuck-on-side-of-road\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox35 Orlando.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the outlet, Miner was killed by a car accident. A roadside memorial has been established.<\/p>\n<p>Becky Watson, East River High school Principal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EastRiverHighSchool\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A statement was issued <\/a>saying, &#8220;I know I speak for our entire East River High community when I express the grief felt at the loss of one of our own.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Monday was a day that school officials offered grief counseling on campus to any student or staff member. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nick-miner-orlando-florida-high-school-quarterback-killed-while-trying-to-help-driver-stuck-on-side-of-road\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/funeral-costs-for-the-miner-family\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe <\/a>was\u00a0set up to cover funeral expenses for the Miner family. The fundraiser had received just $54,000 of their $50,000 goal as of Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that the investigation into the crash is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, a Florida high school student was involved in an accident on Sunday as he tried to help another driver.\u00a0 Nick Miner,\u00a018, was in a pickup truck when he stopped on the side of the road to aid a driver who was stuck in a ditch, according to officials.\u00a0 Miner was thrown out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":143945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Florida-Teen-Killed-While-Trying-to-Aid-a-Driver-Stuck.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143946,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143944\/revisions\/143946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}