{"id":290432,"date":"2026-05-30T21:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T21:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290432\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T21:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T21:57:15","slug":"city-employee-charged-after-fatal-garbage-truck-crash-kills-woman-in-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290432\/","title":{"rendered":"City Employee Charged After Fatal Garbage Truck Crash Kills Woman in St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">A woman was killed Saturday morning after being struck by a City of St. Petersburg garbage truck in an alley near 17 3rd Street North, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Officers responded to the scene at approximately 6:30 a.m. on May 30, 2026, following reports of a fatal crash involving a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators said a City garbage truck struck a 49-year-old woman who was lying across the alley. The woman suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Police said the driver of the garbage truck did not stop following the crash. The driver was later identified as Nathan Brown, 51, a City of St. Petersburg employee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Brown has been charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The identity of the victim has not been released pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 wp-block-paragraph\">The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was killed Saturday morning after being struck by a City of St. Petersburg garbage truck in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-290432","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\/290432","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=290432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}