{"id":427443,"date":"2026-10-14T08:53:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427443\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:53:33","slug":"oregon-man-accused-of-dui-running-red-light-in-deadly-gibsonton-crash-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427443\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon man accused of DUI, running red light in deadly Gibsonton crash: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pml-mug-10.13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-47e62d5a=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-47e62d5a=\"\">Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol <\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">GIBSONTON, Fla. &#8211; A 54-year-old Gibsonton man died after a crash involving a pickup truck and an SUV early Saturday morning, and the other driver was later arrested on charges including DUI manslaughter, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>   Gibsonton deadly crash investigation\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Troopers say the crash happened around 3:45 a.m. on Oct. 10 at the intersection of Gibsonton Drive and U.S. 41.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">A Ford pickup driven by Pablo Mendez-Leyva, 21, of Oregon, was traveling westbound on Gibsonton Drive when it entered the intersection after running a red light, FHP said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">The pickup crashed with a Cadillac SUV traveling northbound on U.S. 41. The SUV was driven by a 54-year-old man from Gibsonton.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Both drivers were injured and taken to hospitals in the area for treatment. The SUV driver later died from injuries suffered in the crash, according to FHP.<\/p>\n<p> Driver DUI manslaughter arrest <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Troopers later arrested Mendez-Leyva and took him to the Orient Road Jail in Tampa. He faces charges of DUI manslaughter and driving without a license resulting in death, according to FHP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was provided by the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol GIBSONTON, Fla. &#8211; A 54-year-old Gibsonton man died after a crash involving a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,629,115,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-427443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","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\/427443","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=427443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}