{"id":367233,"date":"2026-08-10T04:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367233\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T04:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:56:14","slug":"84-year-old-man-loses-control-of-bike-crashes-into-moving-car-in-st-pete-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367233\/","title":{"rendered":"84-year-old man loses control of bike, crashes into moving car in St. Pete: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 An 84-year-old man was killed in a crash while riding a bike in St. Pete Saturday afternoon, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, the crash occurred at 12:15 p.m. on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street North.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the bicyclist was traveling north in the marked bicycle lane approaching the 1400 block when, for an unknown reason, he lost control of the bike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bicycle crossed out of the lane and hit the front passenger corner of a Toyota Corolla that was also traveling north.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was taken to the Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the driver of the Corolla stayed at the scene and cooperated with the investigation, which is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 An 84-year-old man was killed in a crash while riding a bike in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[42554,148890,148889,202,204,203,199,201,200,567],"class_list":["post-367233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-pete-saturday-afternoon","tag-riding-a-bike","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-wfla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367233","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=367233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}