{"id":116665,"date":"2026-01-13T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116665\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:46:08","slug":"driver-killed-construction-workers-injured-in-crash-on-howard-frankland-bridge-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116665\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed, construction workers injured in crash on Howard Frankland Bridge: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; A Georgia man died, and three construction workers were injured in a crash on the Howard Frankland Bridge on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida<\/a> Highway Patrol, a 37-year-old man from Musella, Georgia, was traveling southbound on the Howard Frankland Bridge shortly before 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/howard-frankland-bridge-construction-barrels-toward-finish-line-heres-what-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Howard Frankland Bridge construction barrels toward finish line: Here\u2019s what to know<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Troopers said he did not yield to construction workers, entered a closed lane in the active construction zone and crashed into a Ford F-550 that was driven by a 45-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa<\/a> man who was working in the construction zone.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Debris from the crash struck a Nissan Titan driven by an 18-year-old Largo man who was also traveling southbound on the bridge.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/crews-continue-dismantling-howard-frankland-bridges-aging-northbound-span\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Crews continue dismantling Howard Frankland Bridge&#8217;s aging northbound span\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The driver of the Ford F-550 and two other construction workers aboard the truck were taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The driver of the Nissan Titan was not injured in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information found in a press release from the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; A Georgia man died, and three construction workers were injured in a crash on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-116665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pinellas","11":"tag-st-pete","12":"tag-st-pete-headlines","13":"tag-st-pete-news","14":"tag-st-petersburg","15":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","16":"tag-st-petersburg-news","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116665","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=116665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}