{"id":281805,"date":"2026-05-23T06:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/281805\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:48:24","slug":"st-pete-man-arrested-after-100-mph-dui-crash-injures-4-including-2-children-cpd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/281805\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man arrested after 100 mph DUI crash injures 4, including 2 children: CPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Clearwater police say a St. Petersburg man crashed into two vehicles on U.S. 19 while allegedly driving about 100 mph early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Four people, including two children, were injured in the crash, though police said the injuries were not life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mario Rizk, 28, was arrested on charges including DUI causing serious bodily injury and reckless driving causing serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CLEARWATER, Fla. &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:St. Petersburg;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;St. Petersburg&quot;}\" class=\"link \">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/clearwater\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Clearwater;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;Clearwater&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Clearwater<\/a>, including two children.<\/p>\n<p>High-speed DUI crash<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say Mario Rizk, 28, was driving at approximately 100 mph when he crashed into the back of another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say Rizk\u2019s vehicle then hit a third vehicle that was disabled on the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Four people were hurt in the crash, including two children, according to police. The injuries were reportedly not considered life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Pinellas County;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;Pinellas County&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> Pinellas County<\/a> Jail.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. 19 shut down for hours<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Northbound lanes of U.S. 19 were shut down for approximately three hours while officers investigated the crash and cleared the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have not released additional details about the victims in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information for this story was provided by the Clearwater Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Clearwater police say a St. Petersburg man crashed into two vehicles on U.S. 19 while allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[34397,36482,2792,120003,44287,6334,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-281805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-bodily-injury","tag-clearwater-police-department","tag-dui-crash","tag-mario-rizk","tag-northbound-lanes","tag-reckless-driving","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\/281805","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=281805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}