{"id":235803,"date":"2026-04-17T16:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235803\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:25:15","slug":"tampa-police-investigating-fatal-vehicle-vs-pedestrian-crash-late-thursday-night-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235803\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa police investigating fatal vehicle vs. pedestrian crash late Thursday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was killed late Thursday night after being struck by a vehicle in Tampa, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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":"A man was killed late Thursday night after being struck by a vehicle in Tampa, police said. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136,3793,21030],"class_list":{"0":"post-235803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-tampa","9":"tag-tampa-headlines","10":"tag-tampa-news","11":"tag-tampa-police-department","12":"tag-thursday-night"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235803","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=235803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}