{"id":287863,"date":"2026-05-28T18:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287863\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T18:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:33:42","slug":"car-crushed-in-st-petersburg-after-cherry-picker-lands-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287863\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crushed in St. Petersburg after cherry picker lands on top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A cherry picker fell over and crushed a car in a St. Petersburg condo parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>A Tampa Bay 28 photojournalist went to the Wave Condos at 3315 58th Avenue South on May 28 and captured footage of the cherry picker was on top of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779993218_827_.png\" alt=\"Cherry picker on a vehicle St. Petersburg\"  width=\"1278\" height=\"718\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WFTS<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle owner spoke with Tampa Bay 28 and was not inside at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779993220_137_.png\" alt=\"Cherry picker on vehicle\"  width=\"1276\" height=\"717\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WFTS<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Tampa Bay 28 reporter Casey Albritton will update as information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JULIE.SALOMONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bradenton teen who had leg amputated graduates from middle school<\/p>\n<p>Jasmine Ramirez had her leg amputated in December after a life-threatening infection.<\/p>\n<p>Bradenton teen who had leg amputated graduates from middle school<\/p>\n<p>Latest Pinellas County News from Tampa Bay 28<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A cherry picker fell over and crushed a car in a St. Petersburg condo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[121843,121844,12641,121845,596,107032,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,208],"class_list":["post-287863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-car-crushed","tag-cherry-picker","tag-equipment","tag-fell","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287863","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=287863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}