{"id":117108,"date":"2026-01-14T00:34:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117108\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T00:34:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:34:36","slug":"1-dead-several-injured-after-speeding-car-runs-red-light-st-pete-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117108\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, several injured after speeding car runs red light, St. Pete police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 One person is dead, and several are injured after a crash in St. Petersburg Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on North Frontage Road and MLK Street North around 9:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"720\" width=\"960\" data-id=\"3126753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2956.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3126753\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"720\" width=\"960\" data-id=\"3126752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2957.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3126752\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, a silver Mitsubishi Outlander was traveling northbound on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Street North and crossing North Frontage Road with a green light when a blue Dodge Challenger failed to stop at the red light. <\/p>\n<p>The Challenger, driven by Izell Shelby, was traveling in the westbound lanes at a high rate of speed on North Frontage Road and did not stop at the red light, hitting the Outlander. <\/p>\n<p>Shleby died from his injuries at a hospital in St. Petersburg, officers said. <\/p>\n<p>The other driver and her three passengers were taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p>SPPD stated that speed and the lack of proper safety belt use appeared to be factors in the crash. <\/p>\n<p>Shelby was also found to have an active warrant and a suspended Florida driver\u2019s license, according to the SPPD. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 One person is dead, and several are injured after a crash in St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-117108","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\/117108","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=117108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}