{"id":386067,"date":"2026-08-31T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386067\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:41:21","slug":"police-searching-for-hit-and-run-driver-after-e-bike-crash-in-st-pete-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386067\/","title":{"rendered":"Police searching for hit-and-run driver after e-bike crash in St. Pete: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Police are searching for a driver who fled after striking a man riding an e-bike early Monday morning in St. Petersburg, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD).<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the crash happened shortly after 1 a.m. in the 200 block of 34th Street North. The man was riding an e-bike northbound when he was hit by a Honda Accord, according to an SPPD spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver got out of the vehicle and ran from the scene. The suspect has not been located.<\/p>\n<p>The victim suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788180081_382_MICHAEL.PALUSKA.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rican kikiriki chickens winning hearts across Florida<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rican kikiriki chickens are becoming one of Florida&#8217;s fastest-growing pet trends. A Tampa Bay breeder tells Tampa Bay 28 reporter Michael Paluska the demand for the miniature birds has exploded.<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rican kikiriki chickens winning hearts across Florida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Police are searching for a driver who fled after striking a man riding an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[154728,154732,154729,596,154730,107032,202,204,203,199,201,154731,200,5910,3670,208],"class_list":["post-386067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-34th-street-north-accident","tag-bicyclist-injured-st-petersburg","tag-honda-accord-hit-and-run","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-county-traffic-investigation","tag-pinellas-news","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-hit-and-run","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386067","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=386067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}