{"id":161442,"date":"2026-02-19T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161442\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:33:15","slug":"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\/161442\/","title":{"rendered":"53-year-old Tampa man dead after dump truck backs in, runs over him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Tampa man is dead after he was ran over by a dump truck in Manatee County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Manatee County EMS responded and pronounced the man dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FHP&#8217;s Traffic Homicide Unit is investigating this incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tampa man is dead after he was ran over by a dump truck in Manatee County. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[40913,618,7088,135,1526,137,136,8619],"class_list":{"0":"post-161442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-dump-truck","9":"tag-florida-highway-patrol","10":"tag-manatee-county","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-bay","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-wesley-chapel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161442","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=161442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}