{"id":255151,"date":"2026-05-02T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255151\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:06:12","slug":"st-pete-police-officer-involved-in-crash-with-motorcycle-rider-critically-injured-sppd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255151\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete police officer involved in crash with motorcycle, rider critically injured: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sat, May 2, 2026 at 2:20 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"699\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c673a71cf2dca904837f86977b33668d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Brief<\/p>\n<p>A St. Petersburg police officer and a motorcyclist were involved in a crash Friday night at 54th Avenue North and 16th Street North.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to Orlando Bayfront Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The officer sustained minor injuries; the cause of the crash is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:St. Petersburg;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">St. Petersburg<\/a> police officer was involved in a crash with a motorcycle Friday night that left the rider with life-threatening injuries, according to the St. Pete Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>What we know<\/p>\n<p>Police say the crash happened at approximately 8:30 p.m. at the intersection of 54th Avenue North and 16th Street North.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"699\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/52a905ecf84cb596fa2c9481273da3b5.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the motorcyclist was taken to Orlando Bayfront Hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The police officer involved in the crash suffered minor injuries and was also taken to Orlando Bayfront Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not yet said what led to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The Source<\/p>\n<p>Information for this story was provided by the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, May 2, 2026 at 2:20 AM UTC The Brief A St. Petersburg police officer and a motorcyclist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5857,110958,1738,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-255151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-motorcyclist","tag-orlando-bayfront-hospital","tag-police-officer","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255151","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=255151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}