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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – St. Petersburg<\/a> Police are searching for a driver who is accused of hitting a man riding an e-bike early Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hit-and-run investigation <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Investigators say the woman hit the man around 1:21 Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n Then, they believe she lost control of the car and crashed into Big Dan\u2019s Car Wash sign at 220 34th Street North.\u00a0Afterwards, they believe she took off on foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n The victim has non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n Other hit-and-run crashes <\/p>\n By the numbers:<\/p>\n The incident follows another recent hit-and-run in the area earlier this month, where a 47-year-old woman died after being struck while crossing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street South near 15th Avenue South while she was in a marked crosswalk.\u00a0<\/p>\n Despite recent incidents, police data indicates hit-and-run crashes in the city are trending downward.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lt. Jason Levey reported that hit-and-run crashes dropped from 1,448 between June 30, 2024-June 29, 2025, to 1,352 from June 30, 2025-June 30, 2026.<\/p>\n Serious criminal offense <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Levey emphasized that fleeing the scene turns a traffic incident into a serious criminal offense.<\/p>\n “When somebody gets into a crash, they need to stop, render aid, provide their information,” Levey said. “When they leave, that’s when it becomes a crime. There could be many reasons people leave … but unfortunately, when they’re scared, and they leave, that’s when it becomes a bigger problem that we have to get involved from a criminal aspect.”<\/p>\n Consequences of leaving the scene <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Penalties for leaving the scene of a crash escalate significantly depending on the damage:<\/p>\n Property Damage: Second degree misdemeanor and up to 60 days in jailInjuries: Up to five years in prison and a three-year driver’s license revocationSerious Bodily Injury: Up to 15 years in prisonFatality: Up to 30 years in prison with a four-year mandatory minimum sentence Search for driver <\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The crash remains under active investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n Anyone with information is asked to contact the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story is from the St. Petersburg Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n St. Petersburg<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – St. Petersburg Police are searching for a driver who is accused of hitting a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-386597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386597","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=386597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vlcsnap-2026-08-31-18h24m06s515.jpg\")
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