{"id":262432,"date":"2026-05-07T19:51:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262432\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:51:50","slug":"1-dead-2-hospitalized-after-early-morning-crash-in-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262432\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 2 hospitalized after early morning crash in St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA)\u2014 One person is dead and two others are hospitalized after a crash in St. Petersburg early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The St. Petersburg Police Department responded to a crash on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street South and 9th Avenue South around 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to SPPD, a white Toyota Camry was attempting to back out of a parking lot at the Sunshine Food Mart when they entered the roadway and was hit on the passenger side by a black Jeep Wrangler traveling southbound on MLK Jr. St. S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The passenger in the Toyota, Tamara Williams, 29, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the Toyota and a passenger in the Jeep were taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to officers, the driver of the Jeep was uninjured. He remained on the scene and was cooperative with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA)\u2014 One person is dead and two others are hospitalized after a crash in St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[42554,202,204,203,199,201,200,112906,112905,21279],"class_list":["post-262432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-sunshine-food-mart","tag-tamara-williams","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262432","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=262432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}