{"id":284904,"date":"2026-05-26T16:51:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284904\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:51:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:51:42","slug":"man-hit-by-truck-while-moving-turtle-from-road-in-seminole-pinellas-deputies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284904\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Hit By Truck While Moving Turtle From Road In Seminole: Pinellas Deputies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEMINOLE, FL \u2014 A 74-year-old man was hit by a pickup truck while moving a turtle out of the road in Seminole on Sunday morning, the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office said. <\/p>\n<p>Charles McFall was hospitalized after he was struck by a 2010 Toyota Tacoma on 80th Avenue North around 8:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The truck, driven by 37-year-old Jake Gauthier, was traveling west on the road when the crash happened.<\/p>\n<p>McFall was hit by the truck after stepping into the road to remove the turtle and thrown to the ground, investigators said. <\/p>\n<p>He was brought to a local hospital, where he is in life-threatening but stable condition, the sheriff\u2019s office said. <\/p>\n<p>Gauthier wasn\u2019t injured in the crash. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators said that neither speed nor impairment appeared to be a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEMINOLE, FL \u2014 A 74-year-old man was hit by a pickup truck while moving a turtle out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-284904","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\/284904","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=284904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}