{"id":284707,"date":"2026-05-26T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284707\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:59:08","slug":"tampa-motorcyclist-killed-in-i-275-crash-on-howard-frankland-bridge-fl-troopers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284707\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Motorcyclist Killed In I-275 Crash On Howard Frankland Bridge: FL Troopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PINELLAS COUNTY, FL \u2014 A Tuesday morning crash left a Tampa motorcyclist dead and is snarling traffic on Interstate 275, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>The crash, which happened around 4:30 a.m. on the Howard Frankland Bridge, near milepost 35 in Pinellas County, is blocking the two outside southbound lanes, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/trafficincidents.flhsmv.gov\/SmartWebClient\/CadView.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FHP\u2019s Live Traffic Crash and Road Condition Report<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The victim, a 64-year-old man driving a Honda motorcycle, was traveling south on I-275 in the outside center lane, at the time of the crash. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, a Kia Soul driven by a 48-year-old Lakewood Ranch woman, was traveling southbound in the outside lane.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist changed lanes near milepost 35 into the path of the Kia and was hit by the car, FHP said. He died at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>No additional injuries were reported by the agency. <\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS COUNTY, FL \u2014 A Tuesday morning crash left a Tampa motorcyclist dead and is snarling traffic on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-284707","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\/284707","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=284707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}