{"id":235901,"date":"2026-04-17T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235901\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:40:07","slug":"man-sitting-on-swann-avenue-hit-killed-by-driver-tpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235901\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sitting on Swann Avenue hit, killed by driver: TPD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa<\/a> police are investigating a deadly pedestrian crash.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">It happened shortly after 10:35 p.m. in the westbound lanes of W. Swann Ave., just east of S. Gomez Ave.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police said a man was sitting in a unlit, darkened section of the street as a 25-year-old woman driving a white 2017 Volkswagen Passat was traveling westbound on W. Swann Ave.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to the Tampa Police Department, the woman did not see the man due to the limited lighting and the man\u2019s unexpected position in the roadway and struck him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The man died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police said the driver remained at the scene and is cooperating with law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Investigators noted that neither speed nor impairment were contributing factors to the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The driver was not cited, and criminal charges are not expected.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">It is unclear why the man was sitting on the unlit street.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Traffic homicide investigators are working to identify the man and notify his next of kin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information provided by the Tampa Police Department in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; Tampa police are investigating a deadly pedestrian crash. What we know: It happened shortly after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-235901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235901","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=235901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}