{"id":292146,"date":"2026-06-01T19:54:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292146\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:54:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:54:37","slug":"st-petersburg-man-arrested-on-super-speeder-charges-in-new-howard-frankland-bridge-express-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292146\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg man arrested on super speeder charges in new Howard Frankland Bridge express lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A 21-year-old driver was arrested after Florida Highway Patrol troopers said he was caught speeding more than 50 mph over the limit in the newly opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/traffic\/howard-frankland-bridge-express-lanes-open\/67-d391d0a3-6740-4b76-9a1e-71bc20ed1b12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Howard Frankland Bridge express lanes.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to an arrest affidavit, Travis Hill, 21, was caught on radar at 107 mph in a 55 mph zone around 10:30 p.m. on May 30 while traveling northbound on the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers used a LIDAR device to confirm the speed after visually estimating the vehicle traveling above 100 mph.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/traffic\/howard-frankland-bridge-express-lanes-open\/67-d391d0a3-6740-4b76-9a1e-71bc20ed1b12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The express lanes had opened just two days earlier, on May 27.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Hill told troopers he was trying to get to a friend\u2019s house. Hill was charged with dangerous excessive speeding, a criminal traffic offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A 21-year-old driver was arrested after Florida Highway Patrol troopers said he was caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-292146","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\/292146","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=292146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}