{"id":276492,"date":"2026-05-19T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276492\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:12:09","slug":"emergency-helicopters-first-responders-on-scene-of-crash-involving-injuries-on-us-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276492\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency helicopters, first responders on scene of crash involving injuries on US-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Highway Patrol said this happened around 7:15 a.m. in the area of U.S. 19 near Innisbrook Drive and Klosterman Road.<\/p>\n<p>PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 North and southbound lanes of U.S. 19 are closed Tuesday morning following a crash involving injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol said this happened around 7:15 a.m. in the area of U.S. 19 near Innisbrook Drive and Klosterman Road.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic cameras show multiple first responders at the scene, including helicopters that landed in the area sometime after 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Cameras show traffic is backed up as authorities continue investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers should avoid the area and seek alternate routes as the investigation continues and crews work to clear the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d512b249-c3ee-4a8c-99ac-f56661b04240_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Highway Patrol said this happened around 7:15 a.m. in the area of U.S. 19 near Innisbrook&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-276492","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\/276492","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=276492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}