{"id":143606,"date":"2026-02-04T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143606\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:40:07","slug":"st-pete-man-crossing-22nd-avenue-dies-after-being-hit-by-vehicle-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143606\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man crossing 22nd Avenue dies after being hit by vehicle: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, &#8211; A pedestrian who was seriously injured after being hit by a vehicle Tuesday morning while crossing a road in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Petersburg<\/a> has passed away, according to the St. Pete Police Department.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police say the crash happened shortly after 9 a.m. in the 4800 block of 22nd Avenue South near 49th Street South.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Robert Smith, 43, of St. Pete, was walking between vehicles stopped at a traffic signal and was not using a crosswalk when he was hit by a Jeep traveling westbound, according to SPPD.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/teen-accused-planning-mass-shooting-wimauma-church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Teen accused of planning mass shooting at Wimauma church<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The driver stopped immediately and remained at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Smith was taken to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died Tuesday night. His family has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, &#8211; A pedestrian who was seriously injured after being hit by a vehicle Tuesday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139859,"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-143606","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\/143606","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=143606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}