{"id":290966,"date":"2026-05-31T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290966\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:04:08","slug":"garbage-truck-driver-ignored-warnings-before-hitting-sleeping-woman-in-alley-affidavit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290966\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage truck driver ignored warnings before hitting sleeping woman in alley: affidavit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; New information has been released, showing the moments before a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/garbage-truck-hits-kills-woman-st-pete-sppd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> truck driver backed into an alley, ran over a woman and killed her.<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Nathan Brown, 51, was arrested on Saturday after officials said he ran over and killed a woman while making rounds on the city garbage truck.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to an affidavit from the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office, before Brown drove into the alley, a bystander warned him that people were sleeping in the alley.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Brown ultimately backed into the alley to hook up the dumpster, load the trailer and exited the alley onto 3rd Street North.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/nathan-brown.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the affidavit, Brown admitted to seeing pedestrians sleeping in the alley, yet continually moved through the alley, ultimately running one woman over.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He left the scene without stopping or rendering aide.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Brown was later arrested that same day.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Brown has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The article was written using information from an affidavit from Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; New information has been released, showing the moments before a truck driver backed into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-290966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290966","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=290966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}