{"id":33360,"date":"2025-11-04T21:47:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33360\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:47:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:47:40","slug":"toddler-killed-after-wandering-into-path-of-pickup-truck-crime-crashes-and-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33360\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler killed after wandering into path of pickup truck | Crime, Crashes and Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 A 2-year-old child was killed after wandering from a nearby home and into the path of a pickup truck, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">The crash happened about 3:53 p.m. Oct. 29 on 49th Avenue North, west of 80th Street North, the FHP said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">A 34-year-old Valrico man was driving a Ford F-450 east on 49th Avenue North when the child walked into the roadway, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">The truck struck the child, who died at the scene, according to the Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">The child had left a nearby residence without the parents&#8217; knowledge, troopers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 A 2-year-old child was killed after wandering from a nearby home and into the path&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[618,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,23402],"class_list":["post-33360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-valrico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33360","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=33360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}