{"id":361598,"date":"2026-08-03T15:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361598\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:28:26","slug":"caught-on-camera-unsafe-drivers-keep-tampa-police-busy-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361598\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught on camera: Unsafe drivers keep Tampa police busy over the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Tampa Police had a busy weekend contending with drivers they say should have never been behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a social media post, the department shared video of three separate incidents of drivers crashing into patrol cruisers and driving the wrong way on one-way streets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIn one incident, a driver fell asleep behind the wheel. In another, an impaired driver traveled the wrong way through a neighborhood. Both crashes ended with our officers\u2019 vehicles being struck,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No one was injured in any of the crashes, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Tampa Police had a busy weekend contending with drivers they say should have never&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1994,5318,132,135,137,136,1045],"class_list":["post-361598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crashes","tag-drivers","tag-police","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361598","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=361598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}