{"id":137812,"date":"2026-01-30T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/137812\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:51:08","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-madeira-beach-driver-arrested-on-manslaughter-charge-crime-crashes-and-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/137812\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed in Madeira Beach, driver arrested on manslaughter charge | Crime, Crashes and Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pinellas County woman is facing a DUI manslaughter charge in connection to a crash that killed a pedestrian in Madeira Beach on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred about 9 p.m. Friday near 150th Avenue and Madeira Way. Michael Arndt, 72, was in a marked crosswalk when he was hit by a 2022 Jeep Wrangler driven by Vanessa Downs, 51, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Arndt was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Downs \u201cshowed signs of impairment and performed poorly on field sobriety tests\u201d and was arrested, sheriff\u2019s officials said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>She was released from the Pinellas County Jail Saturday morning on $75,000 bail, records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pinellas County woman is facing a DUI manslaughter charge in connection to a crash that killed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5695,2148,596,3152,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-137812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-dui","9":"tag-madeira-beach","10":"tag-pinellas-county","11":"tag-pinellas-county-sheriff","12":"tag-st-pete","13":"tag-st-pete-headlines","14":"tag-st-pete-news","15":"tag-st-petersburg","16":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","17":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137812","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=137812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}