{"id":219780,"date":"2026-04-05T19:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219780\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:33:08","slug":"crash-causes-major-delays-on-sunshine-skyway-northbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219780\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash causes major delays on Sunshine Skyway northbound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A crash on the Pinellas County side of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge has caused all northbound lanes to shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic has slowed to a crawl in the southbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p>While both lanes are blocked off, traffic cameras did show vehicles passing on the shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have urged drivers to check alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Traffic alert on the sunshine Skyway Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The northbound lanes are closed at the 12 mile post due to a fatal traffic crash.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists should see ultimate northbound routes for the next several hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FHP Tampa (@FHPTampa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FHPTampa\/status\/2040846897053896758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A crash on the Pinellas County side of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge has caused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2173,2175,7088,115,596,275,135,137,136,278,2180,729,2177],"class_list":{"0":"post-219780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-app-traffic-transit","9":"tag-app-traffic-and-transit","10":"tag-manatee-county","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pinellas-county","13":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","14":"tag-tampa","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topic-latest-traffic-transit-news","19":"tag-traffic","20":"tag-traffic-and-transit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219780","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=219780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}