{"id":148820,"date":"2026-02-09T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148820\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:17:07","slug":"mi-bicyclist-killed-in-crash-with-truck-at-siesta-beach-access-fl-troopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148820\/","title":{"rendered":"MI Bicyclist Killed In Crash With Truck At Siesta Beach Access: FL Troopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SARASOTA, FL \u2014 A 65-year-old bicyclist from Michigan died Sunday after being hit by a pick-up truck near Siesta Beach, Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>He was riding a bicycle in the designated bike lane of Beach Road around 1:30 p.m., <\/p>\n<p>While making a right turn at beach access No. 9, east of Plaza de las Palmas, the truck hit the bicyclist, troopers said. <\/p>\n<p>The bicyclist was brought by ambulance to an area hospital with critical injuries and was later pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p>The truck\u2019s driver, a 36-year-old Sarasota man, was uninjured in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, FL \u2014 A 65-year-old bicyclist from Michigan died Sunday after being hit by a pick-up truck near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-148820","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\/148820","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=148820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}