{"id":294647,"date":"2026-06-03T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294647\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:28:13","slug":"st-petersburg-crash-claims-life-of-22-year-old-motorcyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294647\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg Crash Claims Life of 22-Year-Old Motorcyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">A 22-year-old Pinellas Park man died Tuesday night following a motorcycle crash at the intersection of 21st Avenue North and Tyrone Boulevard North in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">According to investigators, the crash occurred shortly before 10 p.m. when a white Ford F-150 pickup truck traveling eastbound on 21st Avenue North attempted to make a left turn onto Tyrone Boulevard North.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, a black and gray Suzuki GSX-R600 motorcycle, operated by Xavier Joshua Strunk, 22, of Pinellas Park, was traveling southbound on Tyrone Boulevard North approaching the intersection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Police say the driver of the Ford failed to yield the right of way and turned into the path of the motorcycle, causing a collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Strunk was transported to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital, where he later died from injuries sustained in the crash. Authorities said his next of kin has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The driver of the Ford remained at the scene and is cooperating with investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old Pinellas Park man died Tuesday night following a motorcycle crash at the intersection of 21st Avenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-294647","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\/294647","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=294647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}