{"id":219934,"date":"2026-04-05T23:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219934\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:37:18","slug":"76-year-old-man-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-on-skyway-bridge-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219934\/","title":{"rendered":"76-year-old man killed in motorcycle crash on Skyway Bridge: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 76-year-old man from Pinellas Park was killed Sunday after losing control of his three-wheeled motorcycle on the Skyway Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775432235_947_.jpeg\" alt=\"Skyway Bridge Fatal (2).jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"960\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Florida Highway Patrol<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said the rider was traveling northbound near Milepost 12 when he took evasive action to avoid a collision with an unknown vehicle. The motorcycle went onto the shoulder, struck the outside guardrail, and came to rest in the outside northbound lane, ejecting the rider.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775432235_860_.jpeg\" alt=\"Skyway Bridge Fatal (4).jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"960\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Florida Highway Patrol<\/p>\n<p>The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The crash closed the northbound lanes of the Skyway Bridge until just after 5:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JADA.WILLIAMS.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s someone&#8217;s loved one&#8217;: Tampa approves land swap to preserve the stolen graves at Zion Cemetery<\/p>\n<p>The City of Tampa said council members approved a land swap agreement to transfer privately owned land believed to be Zion, Tampa&#8217;s first African American cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Zion Cemetery land swap approved by Tampa City Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 76-year-old man from Pinellas Park was killed Sunday after losing control of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,2337,1056,4228,596,135,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-219934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-fatal-crash","10":"tag-fhp","11":"tag-motorcycle-crash","12":"tag-pinellas-county","13":"tag-tampa","14":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news","17":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219934","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=219934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}