{"id":413692,"date":"2026-09-29T12:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413692\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:08:41","slug":"driver-dies-in-a-rollover-crash-in-west-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413692\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies in a rollover crash in west St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high-speed crash in St. Pete led to a driver&#8217;s death after he lost control of his car, police report.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A man died last night during a rollover crash in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/video\/news\/crime\/st-pete-police-search-for-driver-after-deadly-hit-and-run-crash-overnight\/67-11b0da9a-27cf-4683-8c4e-42d7439aac1e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">St. Pete<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Around 12:05 a.m. Sunday, St. Pete Police Department says a man was traveling north on a silver Kia Spectra on Park Street North. Police say he was driving at a high speed.<\/p>\n<p>Then, police say, near 33rd Ave North, the driver lost control while changing lanes, causing him to leave the roadway. The car then struck a speed limit sign and a utility pole, rolled over and hit a telecommunications box and a tree.<\/p>\n<p>SPPD said the driver was ejected from his car and died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>So far in 2026, there have been 9,616 vehicle crashes in Pinellas County, resulting in 5,932 injuries and 44 deaths, according to data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flhsmv.gov\/traffic-crash-reports\/crash-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high-speed crash in St. Pete led to a driver&#8217;s death after he lost control of his car,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-413692","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\/413692","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=413692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}