{"id":389731,"date":"2026-09-03T23:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389731\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T23:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:05:41","slug":"man-walking-on-i-275-dead-after-being-hit-by-4-vehicles-fl-troopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389731\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Walking On I-275 Dead After Being Hit By 4 Vehicles: FL Troopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    A St. Petersburg man died after being hit by four vehicles while walking in an I-275 travel lane, FL Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>Sep 3, 2026 4:32 PM EDT | Updated Sep 3, 2026 4:34 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A 39-year-old St. Petersburg man died Wednesday night after being hit by four vehicles while walking in a southbound lane of Interstate 275, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened near milepost 25, at 38th Avenue N., around 9 p.m. <\/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>The victim was walking in the inside travel lane within the path of four oncoming vehicles traveling south in succession, troopers said. <\/p>\n<p>The man was hit by all four vehicles and suffered fatal injuries at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>None of the drivers were injured in the crash. <\/p>\n<p>One of the drivers, 29-year-old Howard Lee Lockett III of St. Petersburg, fled the scene after the crash but was later returned by a family member, FHP said. <\/p>\n<p>Troopers arrested Lockett, charging him with leaving the scene of a crash involving a death. The Infiniti QX60 he was driving was later located by the St. Petersburg Police Department, FHP said. <\/p>\n<p>The other vehicles involved were a BMW 320i driven by a 22-year-old St. Petersburg woman, a Toyota Corolla driven by a 20-year-old Tampa woman and an Infiniti G37 driven by a 23-year-old St. Petersburg man.<\/p>\n<p>See Also: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A St. Petersburg man died after being hit by four vehicles while walking in an I-275 travel lane,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-389731","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\/389731","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=389731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}