{"id":162689,"date":"2026-02-20T15:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162689\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:48:06","slug":"tesla-driver-returns-to-scene-arrested-after-hitting-and-killing-tampa-bicyclist-in-pasco-county-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162689\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla driver returns to scene, arrested after hitting and killing Tampa bicyclist in Pasco County: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">HUDSON, Fla. &#8211; A Hudson man is facing charges after troopers say he hit and killed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa<\/a> woman on a bicycle, took off, and then returned to the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida<\/a> Highway Patrol, Logan Richard Pineda, 24, was traveling southbound on Parkwood Street in a Tesla Y Model around 9 p.m. on Thursday when he overtook and struck a bicyclist just south of Bern Street.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Post-collision, troopers said Pineda took off.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/362-million-selmon-expressway-expansion-moving-forward-tampa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$362 million Selmon Expressway expansion moving forward in Tampa<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The bicyclist, a 52-year-old Tampa woman, was taken to an area hospital, where she died from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Troopers were still at the scene when Pineda returned and identified himself as the driver.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">He was arrested for leaving the scene of a crash involving a death and taken to the Pasco County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information provided by the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pasco\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pasco County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUDSON, Fla. &#8211; A Hudson man is facing charges after troopers say he hit and killed a Tampa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,115,4136,135,137,136,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-162689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pasco","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162689","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=162689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}