{"id":367114,"date":"2026-08-09T23:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367114\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T23:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:40:21","slug":"woman-killed-in-st-petersburg-hit-and-run-police-searching-for-driver-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367114\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Killed In St. Petersburg Hit-And-Run, Police Searching For Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash early Saturday while walking in a marked crosswalk in St. Petersburg, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A dark-colored sedan was traveling south on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street South around 2 a.m. when it struck the woman near the intersection of 15th Avenue South, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/florida\/stpete\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Police said the 47-year-old woman was walking west across Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street South in the marked crosswalk when she was hit. The driver fled without stopping, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was taken to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital, where she later died. Police did not release her name.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the crash is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call St. Petersburg police at 727-893-7780 or text SPPD and a tip to TIP411.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash early Saturday while walking in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-367114","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\/367114","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=367114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}