{"id":286505,"date":"2026-05-27T18:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/286505\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:47:12","slug":"15-year-old-driver-loses-control-of-car-crashes-into-st-pete-home-and-lands-on-top-of-parked-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/286505\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old driver loses control of car, crashes into St. Pete home and lands on top of parked car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troopers said the 15-year-old driver did not have a license.<\/p>\n<p>CLEARWATER, Fla. \u2014 A 15-year-old was hospitalized after crashing a Dodge Durango into a home Tuesday night in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the teen driver was traveling north on South Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue at a high rate of speed when he lost control of the vehicle near Hall Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The SUV left the roadway, striking multiple traffic control devices and utility fixtures before crashing into a home. FHP said the residents were home at the time but were not hurt.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle collided with the house and a parked car. Photos show the car on top of another car that was parked at the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teen was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FHP said the 15-year-old did not have a license and is facing multiple charges, including reckless driving, no valid driver&#8217;s license, unregistered vehicle and no insurance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troopers said the 15-year-old driver did not have a license. CLEARWATER, Fla. \u2014 A 15-year-old was hospitalized after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-286505","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\/286505","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=286505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}