{"id":116654,"date":"2026-01-13T18:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116654\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:37:06","slug":"oldsmar-man-critically-injured-in-crash-impairment-suspected-crime-crashes-and-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116654\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldsmar man critically injured in crash; impairment suspected | Crime, Crashes and Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OLDSMAR \u2014 An Oldsmar man suffered life-threatening injuries after his three-wheeled motorcycle collided with a Corvette at a busy intersection last week, sheriff&#8217;s officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Rodolfo Ballester Sanchez, 56, was stopped at East Woodlands Parkway preparing to turn onto Tampa Road about 6:40 p.m. Jan. 2, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. He went around a stopped vehicle and pulled into the intersection, striking a 2022 Chevrolet Corvette driven by Kevin Patrick Farrell, 49, of Oldsmar.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell was driving northbound on East Lake Club Drive and had the right of way. He was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez was taken to a hospital with critical injuries. Investigators say impairment appears to be a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OLDSMAR \u2014 An Oldsmar man suffered life-threatening injuries after his three-wheeled motorcycle collided with a Corvette at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12223,596,3152,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-116654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-oldsmar","9":"tag-pinellas-county","10":"tag-pinellas-county-sheriff","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116654","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=116654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116654\/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=116654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}