{"id":387193,"date":"2026-09-01T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387193\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:42:11","slug":"caught-on-camera-teen-tries-to-elude-tampa-police-after-i-275-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387193\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught on camera: Teen tries to elude Tampa police after I-275 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Tampa Police have released video of an officer\u2019s close call on I-275 last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While on a speed enforcement detail, a motorcycle officer was nearly hit Aug. 26 by a vehicle driven by a teenager near the Hillsborough Avenue exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver in a white Kia Soul is seen swerving around the police motorcycle and colliding with another vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When the officer attempts to stop the damaged Kia, the driver speeds off, the video shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was later apprehended and placed under arrest for felony failing to elude an officer, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhen you\u2019re behind the wheel, drive like someone\u2019s life depends on it, because it does!\u201d the Tampa Police Department said on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cFor this teen driver, his reckless decision came with adult consequences: one felony and three misdemeanor charges.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Tampa Police have released video of an officer\u2019s close call on I-275 last week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1776,151379,135,137,136,1045],"class_list":["post-387193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crash","tag-flee","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387193","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=387193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}