{"id":394531,"date":"2026-09-09T07:16:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394531\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:16:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:16:56","slug":"driver-located-after-deadly-e-scooter-crash-in-st-pete-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394531\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver located after deadly e-scooter crash in St. Pete, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 St. Pete police responded to a deadly e-scooter crash Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>It happened on 5th Avenue North near the intersection of Tyrone Boulevard North.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 10 p.m., police say a 37-year-old man on an electric scooter crossed 5th Avenue outside of the marked crosswalk and against posted traffic signals.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the driver of a Toyota sedan was traveling west on 5th Avenue in the outside lane.<\/p>\n<p>While crossing the street, the man entered the outside lane and was struck by the sedan and thrown from the scooter. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Following the crash, the Toyota driver fled the scene, but was later located. Police say no charges have been filed at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 St. Pete police responded to a deadly e-scooter crash Wednesday night. It happened on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-394531","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\/394531","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=394531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}