{"id":391809,"date":"2026-09-06T01:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391809\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:48:08","slug":"pick-up-truck-strikes-2-pedestrians-in-st-pete-flees-scene-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391809\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick-up truck strikes 2 pedestrians in St. Pete, flees scene: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two pedestrians were seriously injured. St. Pete police are asking anyone with information on the driver or vehicle that fled the scene to call 727-893-7780.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Two people were seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash in St. Pete, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened just before 11 p.m. Friday. St. Pete police say a 19-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man were walking southbound on the east side of 49th Street North and started crossing 40th Ave. N.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A white pick-up truck, which was southbound on 49th Street N., made a left turn onto 40th Ave. N and reportedly struck both of the pedestrians as they were crossing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say the truck left the scene eastbound. The vehicle is described to be a white single cab, extended bed Ford F150 or a Ram pick-up truck with damage on the front.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both victims were taken to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital, where they are stable.<\/p>\n<p>St. Pete police are asking anyone with information on the driver or vehicle that fled the scene to call 727-893-7780.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two pedestrians were seriously injured. St. Pete police are asking anyone with information on the driver or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-391809","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\/391809","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=391809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}