{"id":162857,"date":"2026-02-20T18:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162857\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:32:02","slug":"tesla-driver-arrested-in-fatal-pasco-county-hit-and-run-fl-troopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162857\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Driver Arrested In Fatal Pasco County Hit-and-Run: FL Troopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PASCO COUNTY, FL \u2014 A 52-year-old Tampa woman on a bicycle died in a Thursday night hit-and-run crash in Pasco County involving a Tesla Y, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>The Tesla\u2019s driver was heading south on Parkwood Street when he overtook and hit the bicyclist, who was also heading south, just south of Bert Street around 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>After the crash, the driver, later identified as Logan Richard Pineda, 24, of Hudson, fled the scene, troopers said. <\/p>\n<p>The woman was brought to an area hospital where she later died from her injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Later that night, while troopers were still at the crash site, Pineda returned and identified himself as the driver, FHP said. <\/p>\n<p>He was arrested for leaving the scene of a crash involving a death and booked into Pasco County Jail. <\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PASCO COUNTY, FL \u2014 A 52-year-old Tampa woman on a bicycle died in a Thursday night hit-and-run crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-162857","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\/162857","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=162857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}