{"id":413370,"date":"2026-09-29T02:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413370\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T02:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:15:20","slug":"motorcyclist-dies-after-hit-and-run-crash-in-st-petersburg-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413370\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist dies after hit-and-run crash in St. Petersburg: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A Pinellas Park motorcyclist died after a hit-and-run crash early Sunday morning in St. Petersburg, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD).<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 1:10 a.m. at the intersection of Ninth Avenue North and Fourth Street North, police said.<\/p>\n<p>SPPD said a black Suzuki motorcycle operated by a 65-year-old Pinellas Park man was traveling southbound on Fourth Street North.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, a dark-colored Mercedes SUV was traveling northbound on Fourth Street North and turned west onto Ninth Avenue North in front of the motorcycle, causing the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercedes continued westbound on Ninth Avenue North and left the scene, SPPD said.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist was transported to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital, where he later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone with information about the Mercedes SUV or its driver to contact the St. Petersburg Police Department at 727-893-9970.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790648120_287_HALEY.ZARCONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bradenton community responds after 20-year-old volleyball star dies from disease that affects 2 in a million<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old IMG Academy volleyball star and Under Armour All-American died Sept. 16 after a three-month battle with the rare blood disorder \u2014 even though doctors had found her a 100% bone marrow match, her mother, Tanya Mack tells Tampa Bay 28 reporter Haley Zarcone.<\/p>\n<p>20-year-old volleyball star dies from disease that affects 2 in a million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A Pinellas Park motorcyclist died after a hit-and-run crash early Sunday morning in St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[49110,163750,163751,596,107032,202,204,203,199,201,154731,200,55612,5910,3670,208],"class_list":["post-413370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fatal-motorcycle-crash","tag-fourth-street-north-crash","tag-ninth-avenue-north-crash","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-hit-and-run","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-st-petersburg-police-department","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413370","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=413370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}