{"id":192579,"date":"2026-03-15T16:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192579\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:53:26","slug":"tampa-police-officer-recovering-after-being-hit-by-car-while-directing-traffic-near-raymond-james-stadium-tpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192579\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa police officer recovering after being hit by car while directing traffic near Raymond James Stadium: TPD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A sergeant with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa<\/a> Police Department is recovering after reportedly being hit by a vehicle while directing traffic following a concert near Raymond James Stadium early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/organization\/tpd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TPD<\/a>, the crash happened shortly after midnight along West Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, just past North Himes Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/macdill-air-force-base-is-devastated-loss-three-members-99th-air-refueling-squadron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MacDill Air Force Base announces the loss of three members of the 99th Air Refueling Squadron<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Police say the sergeant was working traffic after the concert and was wearing a reflective traffic vest while directing vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">During that time, a Chrysler sports car traveling eastbound on West MLK Boulevard veered from the center lane into the outside lane and hit the officer, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The officer was taken to a nearby hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. As of Sunday morning, police say the sergeant is stable and in good spirits.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">TPD says the 44-year-old driver remained at the scene and cooperated with the investigation. He was cited for careless driving causing serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Investigators say speed and impairment are not believed to be factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">&#8220;I\u2019m incredibly grateful and relieved to know that one of our officers is OK after an incident that could\u2019ve been deadly,&#8221; Chief Lee Bercaw said. &#8220;It serves as a stark reminder that even in some of the most routine tasks, our officers risk their lives to keep our community, and in this case concertgoers, safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Tampa Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/organization\/tpd\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Police Department<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A sergeant with the Tampa Police Department is recovering after reportedly being hit by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,1536,135,137,136,1634,628],"class_list":["post-192579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tpd","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192579","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=192579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}