{"id":390695,"date":"2026-09-04T21:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390695\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T21:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:01:14","slug":"man-walking-on-interstate-hit-killed-by-multiple-vehicles-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390695\/","title":{"rendered":"Man walking on interstate hit, killed by multiple vehicles: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man was walking along I-275 in St. Pete.<\/p>\n<p>SAINT PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A man was killed after being struck by multiple vehicles on Interstate 275 Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Highway Patrol said the man, a 39-year-old from St. Petersburg, was walking in the inside travel lane of the interstate near the 38th Avenue North exit around 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when four vehicles traveling south in the inside lane struck the man one after the other. He suffered fatal injuries at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>None of the drivers were injured in the collision.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the first vehicle, 29-year-old Howard Lockett, left the scene and was later returned by a family member.<\/p>\n<p>Lockett was arrested by FHP and charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving death. St. Pete police officers later found his car.<\/p>\n<p>FHP has not released the victim&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>The incident caused lane closures for several hours. The roadway reopened at 5:30 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man was walking along I-275 in St. Pete. SAINT PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A man was killed after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-390695","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\/390695","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=390695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}