{"id":200951,"date":"2026-03-22T01:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T01:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200951\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T01:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T01:56:07","slug":"driver-killed-in-fiery-i-275-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200951\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Killed In Fiery I-275 Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FLA \u2014 A 62-year-old Largo man was killed when he lost control of his vehicle, triggering a fiery I-275 crash Saturday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened just after 11 a.m. Saturday, South of Milepost 30, according to Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Steve Gaskins.<\/p>\n<p>For unknown reasons, the driver lost control of his vehicle, departed the roadway, and struck a traffic sign support pole on the shoulder, according to the highway patrol. The vehicle erupted in flames. <\/p>\n<p>The driver was transported to a nearby hospital, where he died from injuries suffered during the crash, Gaskins said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FLA \u2014 A 62-year-old Largo man was killed when he lost control of his vehicle, triggering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-200951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200951","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=200951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}