{"id":291591,"date":"2026-06-01T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/291591\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:12:09","slug":"1-dead-2-critically-injured-after-3-vehicle-crash-in-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/291591\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 2 critically injured after 3-vehicle crash in St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WFLA;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WFLA\" 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>Sun, May 31, 2026 at 7:02 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"461\" 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\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_wfla_articles_649\/a7b3dbee29a996927624788011cd113f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>1 dead, 2 critically injured after 3-vehicle crash in St. Petersburg<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 One person was killed, and two others were critically injured after a three-vehicle crash early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, a Mercedes sedan\u00a0was traveling westbound on 18th Avenue South at 1:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was approaching 29th St. S. when, for an unknown reason, the driver suddenlycrossed the median and hit an eastbound black Nissan sedan head-on.<\/p>\n<p>After the collision, police said an Oldsmobile was traveling westbound on 18th Avenue Southand failed to stop, colliding with the Nissan\u2019s front end.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger in the Nissan was taken to the hospital, where he died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers of the Mercedes and Nissan were taken to the hospital with critical injuries and subsequently airlifted to Tampa General Hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Oldsmobile was assessed on the scene and released.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun, May 31, 2026 at 7:02 PM UTC 1 dead, 2 critically injured after 3-vehicle crash in St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[67276,81859,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-291591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-critical-injuries","tag-mercedes-sedan","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\/291591","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=291591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}