{"id":412202,"date":"2026-09-27T18:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412202\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:56:10","slug":"pinellas-park-motorcyclist-killed-in-st-pete-crash-suv-driver-leaves-scene-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412202\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinellas Park motorcyclist killed in St. Pete crash; SUV driver leaves scene: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; A 65-year-old Pinellas Park motorcyclist was killed and an SUV driver left the scene early Sunday after a crash in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Petersburg<\/a>, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> St Petersburg deadly hit-and-run crash   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said the crash happened shortly after 1a.m. at the intersection of 9th Avenue North and 4th Street North.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to SPPD, the victim was riding a black motorcycle southbound on 4th Street North.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">At the same time, a dark-colored Mercedes SUV was traveling northbound on 4th Street North. Police said the SUV turned west onto 9th Avenue North in front of the motorcycle, causing the crash, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Mercedes fled westbound on 9th Avenue North after the crash, police said. Police have not released the victim&#8217;s name or a detailed description or license plate number for the dark-colored Mercedes SUV.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The motorcyclist was taken to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital St. Petersburg, where he later died from his injuries, according to SPPD.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p> Police investigation <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police are asking anyone with information about the Mercedes SUV or the crash to contact the St. Petersburg Police Department at 727-893-9970.<\/p>\n<p> Suspect vehicle identification <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police have not released the victim&#8217;s name or a detailed description of the dark-colored Mercedes SUV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was provided by the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; A 65-year-old Pinellas Park motorcyclist was killed and an SUV driver left the scene&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-412202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412202","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=412202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}