{"id":255849,"date":"2026-05-02T21:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255849\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:39:09","slug":"motorcyclist-hospitalized-with-serious-injuries-after-st-pete-officer-fails-to-yield-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255849\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist hospitalized with serious injuries after St. Pete officer fails to yield: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sat, May 2, 2026 at 12:18 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-full object-cover\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05a70c280715ad39ccbcf723ff7357f9.jpeg\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"504\" 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\/33db6f7a60fd986e82709ee5d1e020ce.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Video above: See the week\u2019s top headlines in Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 The St. Petersburg Police Department said one of its officers was involved in a crash on Friday evening after failing to yield to oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at around 8:30 p.m. on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>SPPD said the officer, in a marked police cruiser, was heading west on 54th Avenue North when he attempted to make a left turn onto 16th Street North.<\/p>\n<p>He failed to yield to a 29-year-old St. Pete man on a Yamaha motorcycle, who then crashed into the front passenger side of the cruiser.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist was wearing a helmet and was transported to the hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was hospitalized with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, May 2, 2026 at 12:18 PM UTC Video above: See the week\u2019s top headlines in Tampa Bay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[38258,22664,202,204,203,199,201,200,567],"class_list":["post-255849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-oncoming-traffic","tag-police-cruiser","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-wfla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255849","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=255849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}