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CLEARWATER, Fla. – A St. Petersburg <\/a>man is facing felony charges after police say he hit two vehicles during a high-speed crash on U.S. 19 early Friday morning that injured four people in Clearwater<\/a>, including two children.<\/p>\n High-speed DUI crash <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n According to the Clearwater Police Department, the crash happened shortly before 3 a.m. in the northbound lanes of U.S. 19 near Harn Boulevard.<\/p>\n Investigators say Mario Rizk, 28, was driving at approximately 100 mph when he crashed into the back of another vehicle.<\/p>\n Police say Rizk\u2019s vehicle then hit a third vehicle that was disabled on the side of the road.<\/p>\n Four people were hurt in the crash, including two children, according to police. The injuries were reportedly not considered life-threatening.<\/p>\n Rizk was arrested and booked on charges of DUI causing serious bodily injury and reckless driving causing serious bodily injury. He was booked into the Pinellas County<\/a> Jail.<\/p>\n U.S. 19 shut down for hours <\/p>\n Northbound lanes of U.S. 19 were shut down for approximately three hours while officers investigated the crash and cleared the scene.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Police have not released additional details about the victims in the crash.<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Clearwater Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n Clearwater<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Clearwater Police Department CLEARWATER, Fla. – A St. Petersburg man is facing felony charges after police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1339,630,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-281624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-clearwater","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281624","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=281624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}