{"id":348502,"date":"2026-07-22T12:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348502\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:36:21","slug":"72-year-old-dies-after-head-on-crash-in-st-pete-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348502\/","title":{"rendered":"72-year-old dies after head-on crash in St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA)\u2014 One person is dead and another hospitalized after a pick-up truck crossed over into oncoming traffic and hit a van. <\/p>\n<p>The St. Petersburg Police Department responded to a crash around 1:37 a.m. Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>According to the SPPD, a pick-up truck traveling eastbound on 5th Avenue North, approaching Lafayette Street North, before crossing into oncoming traffic and hitting a van head-on traveling westbound.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the truck, 72-year-old Charles Caravana was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said the driver of the van, a 67-year-old woman, was taken to a nearby hospital, where she is in stable condition. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stay up to date on the latest from News Channel 8 on-air and on the go with the free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WFLA News Channel 8 mobile app<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA)\u2014 One person is dead and another hospitalized after a pick-up truck crossed over into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-348502","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\/348502","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=348502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}