{"id":119264,"date":"2026-01-15T15:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/119264\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:05:53","slug":"road-closes-after-dump-truck-hits-power-lines-in-pinellas-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/119264\/","title":{"rendered":"Road closes after dump truck hits power lines in Pinellas County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials said the driver of the dump truck continued driving and was seen lowering the bed following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A road closure is in place in Pinellas County after a dump truck hit several power lines that landed on the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said this happened Thursday morning when a dump truck driving in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/35th+St+N+%2526+Morris+St+N,+Lealman,+FL+33714\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88c2e39abd9b9515:0x80406d7e875748bd?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">35th Street North and Morris Street<\/a> had its bed in the up position.<\/p>\n<p>The bed caught the overhead power lines crossing the road from east to west, pulled and detached them from the supporting poles, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The utility pole snapped a third of the way up from the ground and landed toward the roadway, hitting other power lines along the east shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>FLHSMV said the driver of the dump truck continued driving and was seen lowering the bed following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Local businesses provided footage to investigators of the crash and of the truck leaving the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers in the area should use alternate routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials said the driver of the dump truck continued driving and was seen lowering the bed following the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-119264","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\/119264","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=119264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}