{"id":26094,"date":"2025-10-30T03:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/26094\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T03:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:41:10","slug":"two-year-old-child-fatally-struck-by-truck-in-unincorporated-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/26094\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Year-Old Child Fatally Struck by Truck in Unincorporated St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">A two-year-old child was killed Wednesday afternoon after being struck by a pickup truck on 49th Avenue North.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at approximately 3:48 p.m. on Wednesday, October 29, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a Ford F450, driven by a 34-year-old Valrico man, was traveling eastbound on 49th Avenue North, west of 80th Street North, when the child entered the roadway.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_1348.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60423\"  \/>FHP investigating fatal crash involving a young child<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Police determined the child had left a nearby residence without the parents\u2019 knowledge and walked into the path of the truck. The driver was unable to avoid the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The child died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_1350.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60424\"  \/>Trooper inspecting the truck near the scene of the fatal crash<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Investigators said the driver remained on scene and cooperated with authorities. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A two-year-old child was killed Wednesday afternoon after being struck by a pickup truck on 49th Avenue North.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-26094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","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\/26094","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=26094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}