ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 A St. Petersburg man died after running a red light and crashing into another vehicle at a busy intersection, police said.<\/p>\n
Izell Shelby, 31, was speeding west on North Frontage Road around 9:30 p.m. Dec. 27 when he ran the red light at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street North and struck a silver Mitsubishi Outlander, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n
The Mitsubishi was heading north through the intersection on a green light when Shelby’s blue Dodge Charger slammed into it, police said.<\/p>\n
Shelby died at Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital St. Petersburg. The Mitsubishi’s driver and three passengers were taken to the same hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.<\/p>\n
Police said speed and failure to wear a seat belt contributed to the crash. Shelby was driving on a suspended license and had an active warrant at the time, according to the department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 A St. Petersburg man died after running a red light and crashing into another vehicle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1776,9189,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,55612],"class_list":["post-108564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crash","tag-crimes","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-st-petersburg-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108564","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=108564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}