Police said the driver remained on scene and cooperated fully. Neither speed nor impairment is believed to be a factor.<\/p>\n
TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A man was killed late Thursday night after being struck by a vehicle in Tampa, police said.<\/p>\n
According to the Tampa Police Department, the crash occurred around 10:37 p.m. on April 16 on West Swann Avenue, just east of South Gomez Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Investigators say the man was seated in the westbound travel lanes in a dark, unlit section of the roadway for reasons that remain unclear.<\/p>\n
A 25-year-old woman driving a white 2017 Volkswagen Passat was traveling westbound when she was unable to see the man in time to avoid hitting him, police said. The man died at the scene.<\/p>\n
Police said the driver remained on scene and cooperated fully. Neither speed nor impairment is believed to be a factor. The victim has not yet been identified, and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said the driver remained on scene and cooperated fully. Neither speed nor impairment is believed to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-235672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235672","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=235672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}