{"id":351977,"date":"2026-07-25T05:49:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351977\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T05:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:49:38","slug":"72-year-old-man-killed-in-head-on-crash-in-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351977\/","title":{"rendered":"72-year-old man killed in head-on crash in St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 72-year-old man was killed after his pickup truck crossed into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on with a van in St. Petersburg early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A 72-year-old man was killed in a head-on crash overnight in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at 1:37 a.m. Thursday on 5th Avenue North near Lafayette Street North, a couple of blocks west of 37th Street North.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a 72-year-old man was driving a pickup truck eastbound when he crossed into the westbound lanes and collided head-on with a van.<\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg police identified the pick-up truck driver as Charles Peter Caravana. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A 67-year-old woman driving the van was taken to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital, where she is stable.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 72-year-old man was killed after his pickup truck crossed into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-351977","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\/351977","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=351977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}