{"id":143674,"date":"2026-02-04T18:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143674\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:40:35","slug":"man-died-after-being-hit-by-jeep-while-crossing-22nd-ave-s-st-pete-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143674\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Died After Being Hit By Jeep While Crossing 22nd Ave. S.: St. Pete Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A St. Petersburg man died Tuesday night after being hit by a Jeep while crossing 22nd Avenue S. earlier that day, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Robert Smith, 44, was walking between vehicles stopped at a traffic signal on 22nd Avenue South near 49th Street South, outside the marked crosswalk, when he was hit by the Jeep, which was heading west, just after 9 a.m., St. Petersburg police said. <\/p>\n<p>The driver stopped and remained at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>Smith was brought to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said. <\/p>\n<p>He died from his injuries at the hospital that night. His family has been notified of his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A St. Petersburg man died Tuesday night after being hit by a Jeep while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-143674","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\/143674","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=143674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}