{"id":106416,"date":"2026-01-05T17:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/106416\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:02:43","slug":"slingshot-driver-hospitalized-after-crash-pinellas-county-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/106416\/","title":{"rendered":"Slingshot Driver Hospitalized After Crash: Pinellas County Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OLDSMAR, FL \u2014 A Slingshot driver was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after a Saturday evening crash in Oldsmar, the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>Impairment is thought to be a factor in the crash, PCSO added. <\/p>\n<p>Rodolfo Ballester Sanchez, 56, was driving the three-wheeled motorcycle when he stopped at the intersection of East Woodlands Parkway and was about to turn east onto Tampa Road around 6:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez drove around a stopped vehicle, entered the Tampa Road intersection and hit a Chevrolet Corvette, which was heading north on East Lake Club Drive and had the right of way, the sheriff\u2019s office said. <\/p>\n<p>Sanchez was brought to a local hospital with serious injuries after the crash. <\/p>\n<p>The Corvette\u2019s driver, Kevin Farrell, 49, was uninjured and cooperated with deputies. <\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OLDSMAR, FL \u2014 A Slingshot driver was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after a Saturday evening crash in Oldsmar,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-106416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106416","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=106416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}