{"id":26130,"date":"2025-10-30T04:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/26130\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T04:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:17:59","slug":"2-year-old-child-struck-and-killed-by-truck-in-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/26130\/","title":{"rendered":"2-year-old child struck and killed by truck in St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761797878_433_image\" alt=\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=0Lzjkp_167QWkvJ00\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), a two-year-old child was struck and killed by a pickup truck on Wednesday after walking into the roadway in a St. Petersburg neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: 2-year-old child struck and killed by truck in St. Petersburg<\/p>\n<p>2-year-old child struck and killed by truck in St. Petersburg<\/p>\n<p>Officials said a Ford F450 driven by a 34-year-old Valrico man was traveling east on 49th Avenue North, west of 80th Street North, when the child entered the vehicle&#8217;s path.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the child had left a nearby residence without the parents\u2019 knowledge. The driver was unable to avoid the collision, and the child died from injuries at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761797879_66_image\" alt=\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=2P93zo_167QWkvJ00\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"\/>WFTS<\/p>\n<p>It happened near 8000 49th Avenue North in unincorporated St. Petersburg. <\/p>\n<p>This is an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Latest Pinellas County News from Tampa Bay 28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), a two-year-old child was struck and killed by a pickup truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[19718,749,266,748,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910],"class_list":["post-26130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-2-year-old-child-struck-and-killed-by-truck-in-st-petersburg","tag-breaking-news","tag-local-news","tag-newsbreak","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26130","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=26130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}