{"id":5347,"date":"2025-10-15T20:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5347\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T20:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:01:12","slug":"man-on-dirt-bike-killed-in-st-pete-crash-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5347\/","title":{"rendered":"Man on dirt bike killed in St. Pete crash: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man riding a dirt bike was killed in a crash in St. Petersburg on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said the crash happened on 9th Avenue North and Dr. MLK Jr. Street North at 9:44 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>A yellow Suzuki dirt bike operated by a 20-year-old man entered a marked bicycle lane to bypass other vehicles on Dr. MLK Jr. St. N., according to police.  The motorcycle then hit the rear passenger side of a vehicle attempting to make a left-hand turn onto 9th Avenue, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist was hospitalized but later died from his injuries.  <\/p>\n<p>The other vehicle remained at the scene, SPPD said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trending_Video_TampaBay28.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Israeli defense minister speaks in Sarasota as protesters demand arrest over alleged war crimes<\/p>\n<p>Yoav Gallant spoke at a ticketed event hosted by the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee, while protesters outside denounced his wartime actions and called for accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Former Israeli defense minister speaks in Sarasota as protesters demand arrest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man riding a dirt bike was killed in a crash in St. Petersburg on Wednesday. St. Petersburg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[205,1776,5911,5912,596,202,204,203,3669,199,201,200,5910,3670,208],"class_list":["post-5347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-abc-action-news","tag-crash","tag-dirt-bike-crash","tag-man-on-bike-killed","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-pete-police","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","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\/5347","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=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}