{"id":214180,"date":"2026-04-01T06:38:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214180\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:38:46","slug":"man-pushing-woman-in-wheelchair-across-street-hit-killed-by-vehicle-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214180\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pushing woman in wheelchair across street hit, killed by vehicle in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa police are investigating the traffic death of man who was aiding a woman crossing the street on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

The Tampa Police Department (TPD) said the traffic collision happened shortly before 10 p.m. on March 29, claiming the life of a man and leaving a woman in critical condition, after the man in his mid-60s was assisting the woman in her early 50s by pushing her wheelchair across North Florida Avenue near East Ohio Avenue. <\/p>\n

TPD said in a news release, “the pair crossed from east to west in a poorly lit section of the roadway, and outside of a designated crosswalk, they were struck by a 2005 Volvo traveling northbound.”<\/p>\n

First responders transported the man a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. The woman who was also transported to the hospital, and she remains listed in critical condition, according to TPD.<\/p>\n

The driver of the Volvo, a woman in her early 30s, remained at the scene, cooperating with the investigation. <\/p>\n

TPD said investigators conclude speed was not a factor in the collision, and there were no signs of impairment from the driver.<\/p>\n

The investigation is ongoing, but no citations have been issued.<\/p>\n

TPD added no criminal charges are currently expected.<\/p>\n

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Suspect arrested for murder of Bartow man found in ‘pool of blood’: PCSO<\/p>\n

Polk County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) announced it arrested the suspect involved in the murder of a 56-year-old Bartow man found in a “pool of blood.”<\/p>\n

Arrest in ‘violent death’ of Florida man found in ‘pool of blood’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa police are investigating the traffic death of man who was aiding a woman crossing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,97739,276,97738,135,5910,3670,137,136,9822,208,97740],"class_list":["post-214180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-abc-action-news","tag-fatal-traffic-collision","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-north-florida-avenue","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police","tag-wfts","tag-wheelchair-collision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214180","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=214180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}