{"id":26154,"date":"2025-10-30T04:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/26154\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T04:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:41:12","slug":"2-year-old-child-struck-and-killed-by-truck-in-st-petersburg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/26154\/","title":{"rendered":"2-year-old child struck and killed by truck in St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 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\/1761799271_170_\" alt=\"Image (1).jpg\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"\/><\/p>\n<p>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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediaassets.abcactionnews.com\/image\/VideoModule\/Trending_Video_TampaBay28.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay locals stranded as Hurricane Melissa ravages Jamaica<\/p>\n<p>Polk County woman on honeymoon and Tampa restaurant owner among those unable to evacuate as catastrophic hurricane makes landfall with 185 mph winds.<\/p>\n<p>Locals stranded as Hurricane Melissa slams Jamaica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), a two-year-old child was struck and killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[205,19723,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,3670,208],"class_list":["post-26154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-abc-action-news","tag-child-struck-and-killed-by-vehicle","tag-pinellas-county","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-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26154","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=26154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}