{"id":58069,"date":"2025-11-23T23:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58069\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T23:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:09:07","slug":"passenger-killed-after-driver-falls-asleep-on-i-275-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58069\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger killed after driver falls asleep on I-275: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla &#8211; A woman is dead after the driver of the car she was in fell asleep while heading south on I-275 near the Skyway Bridge, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Investigators say that a 21-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/pinellas-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pinellas Park<\/a> man was driving a Chevy Colorado when he fell asleep. The car struck a tree and a guardrail before the victim was ejected.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/fdle-investigation-suspects-death-while-in-custody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FDLE investigating suspect&#8217;s death while in custody<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The victim, a 27-year-old <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clearwater<\/a> woman, was taken to a nearby hospital where she later died.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The driver and the two other people in the car were not injured.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The crash happened north of the Pinellas Rest Area at around 4 a.m.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The names of the people involved have not been released.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">CLICK HERE:&gt;&gt;&gt; <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@fox13tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow FOX 13 on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla &#8211; A woman is dead after the driver of the car she was in fell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-58069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","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\/58069","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=58069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}