{"id":290593,"date":"2026-05-31T02:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290593\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:16:14","slug":"garbage-truck-hits-kills-woman-in-st-pete-sppd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290593\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage truck hits, kills woman in St. Pete: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fox local;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fox local\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Sat, May 30, 2026 at 4:24 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>The Brief<\/p>\n<p>A woman is dead after a city garbage truck entered an alley and struck her, according to the St. Pete Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the garbage truck has been arrested and charged with leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the woman has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; The St. Pete Police Department has arrested the driver of a garbage truck after he failed to stop after striking a woman.<\/p>\n<p>What we know<\/p>\n<p>According to SPPD, officers were called to the scene of a fatal crash around 6:30 a.m. Saturday. The fatal crash occurred in the alley near 17 3rd Street North.<\/p>\n<p>A city garbage truck struck a 49-year-old woman who was lying across the alley.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was fatally injured at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>SPPD said the driver did not stop after the crash.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fox_aggregated_articles_807\/f226181285575263886696c6255fc99a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The driver, a City of St. Pete employee, Nathan Brown, 51, was charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving death.<\/p>\n<p>What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the woman has yet to be released as officers work to notify the next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p>This is an ongoing investigation. Updates will be released as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>The Source<\/p>\n<p>This article was written using information from the St. Pete Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, May 30, 2026 at 4:24 PM UTC The Brief A woman is dead after a city garbage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2337,120239,24834,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-290593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fatal-crash","tag-garbage-truck","tag-sppd","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\/290593","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=290593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}