{"id":161262,"date":"2026-02-19T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161262\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:07:08","slug":"fhp-53-year-old-tampa-man-dead-after-dump-truck-backs-in-runs-over-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161262\/","title":{"rendered":"FHP: 53-year-old Tampa man dead after dump truck backs in, runs over him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troopers say the man was helping the driver back up to unload from the truck when he tripped and fell to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>PARRISH, Fla. \u2014 A Tampa man is dead after he was ran over by a dump truck in Manatee County.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol said this happened around noon Wednesday when a 46-year-old Wesley Chapel woman was driving the dump truck in the area of Bella Mar Trail and Diamond Reef Drive in Parrish. The area is a construction site for a new subdivision.<\/p>\n<p>Officials explained the 53-year-old Tampa man was helping the driver back up to unload from the truck when he tripped, fell to the ground and was run over by the truck&#8217;s right tires.<\/p>\n<p>Manatee County EMS responded and pronounced the man dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>FHP&#8217;s Traffic Homicide Unit is investigating this incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troopers say the man was helping the driver back up to unload from the truck when he tripped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-161262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161262","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=161262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161262\/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=161262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}