SEMINOLE \u2014 A bicyclist died after he was struck by a pickup truck at the intersection of Seminole Boulevard and Valencia Terrace, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said.<\/p>\n
Darell Groves, 82, was riding an electric bicycle north on Seminole Boulevard in the southbound bike lane about 9:21 a.m. Nov. 12 when John Baustert, 62, turned his 2012 Toyota Tacoma south onto Seminole Boulevard from Valencia Terrace, according to the Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
Baustert’s truck struck Groves at the intersection, deputies said.<\/p>\n
Groves was taken to a hospital, where he died. He was not wearing a helmet, according to the Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
Baustert was not injured and cooperated with deputies, the agency said.<\/p>\n
Speed and impairment do not appear to be factors in the crash, according to the Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
The Sheriff’s Office Major Accident Investigation Team is investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEMINOLE \u2014 A bicyclist died after he was struck by a pickup truck at the intersection of Seminole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[596,3152,3883,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-53495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-county-sheriff","tag-seminole","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\/53495","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=53495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}