{"id":392211,"date":"2026-09-06T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392211\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:34:29","slug":"police-search-for-pickup-truck-that-struck-two-pedestrians-in-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392211\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for pickup truck that struck two pedestrians in St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Police are searching for a driver who they said hit two pedestrians Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, the crash occurred at 10:55 p.m. as the pedestrians were walking southbound on the east side of 49th Street North and crossing 40th Avenue North.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the white pickup truck was traveling southbound on 49th Street North and made a left turn onto 40th Avenue North when it struck both pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The truck continued driving eastbound and left the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victims were taken to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital with serious injuries. Both are in stable condition as of this report.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Courtesy of the St Petersburg Police Department\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/wfla_article_174\/16ff8b68a7b523d969136c0b3e482258.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of the St Petersburg Police Department<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SPPD described the vehicle as a white single-cab, extended-bed Ford F150 or a Ram pickup<br \/>truck. There should be damage to the front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers ask anyone with information regarding the driver or the vehicle to contact the St. Petersburg Police Department at 727-893-7780.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Police are searching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[11990,202,204,203,199,201,200,567],"class_list":["post-392211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-orlando-health-bayfront-hospital","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-wfla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392211","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=392211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}