{"id":165278,"date":"2026-02-23T03:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165278\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T03:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:28:08","slug":"clearwater-bicyclist-killed-after-being-hit-by-vehicle-involved-in-crash-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165278\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearwater bicyclist killed after being hit by vehicle involved in crash: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771817288_284_84090-PINELLAS_COUNTY_WEBSITE-MAP_001_1437591364700_53056_ver1.0_640_360.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">CLEARWATER, Fla. &#8211; A bicyclist is dead after being hit by a vehicle involved in a crash Saturday evening at a busy downtown intersection, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/clearwater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Clearwater <\/a>Police Department.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police identified the victim as William Moran, 60, of Clearwater. Investigators say Moran was on a bicycle waiting at a pedestrian crosswalk for a light at the intersection of Court Street and Missouri Avenue, when two vehicles crashed shortly before 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/clearwater-man-charges-threatening-couple-knife-shot-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Clearwater man facing charges, accused of threatening couple with knife before being shot: Police<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The collision launched one of the vehicles into Moran. He was taken to Morton Plant Hospital, where he later died, according to CPD.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police say both drivers involved in the crash suffered non-life-threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Roadways have since reopened in the area, but the investigation into what led to the crash remains ongoing, CPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Clearwater Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/clearwater\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clearwater<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article CLEARWATER, Fla. &#8211; A bicyclist is dead after being hit by a vehicle involved in a crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1339,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-165278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-clearwater","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pinellas","12":"tag-st-pete","13":"tag-st-pete-headlines","14":"tag-st-pete-news","15":"tag-st-petersburg","16":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","17":"tag-st-petersburg-news","18":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165278","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=165278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}