St. Petersburg, FL – A Clearwater woman died early Sunday morning after a pickup truck allegedly ran off the Sunshine Skyway Bridge when the driver reportedly fell asleep, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred around 4 a.m. in the southbound lanes just beyond the rest area on the bridge. <\/p>\n
Investigators said a 21-year-old man from Pinellas Park was driving a Chevrolet Colorado with a 27-year-old Clearwater woman in the passenger seat, along with two additional passengers whose names have not been released.<\/p>\n
FHP stated that the driver allegedly fell asleep while traveling southbound. <\/p>\n
The truck then drifted off the roadway and struck a tree before hitting a guardrail. <\/p>\n
The impact caused the Clearwater woman to be ejected from the vehicle. <\/p>\n
Emergency responders transported her to a nearby hospital, where she later died from her injuries.<\/p>\n
According to troopers, the driver and the two remaining passengers were not injured in the crash. <\/p>\n
FHP has not announced any charges, and as of the latest available information, no arrest report has been released in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n
The collision prompted authorities to shut down all southbound lanes of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge for several hours.<\/p>\n
Traffic was redirected through the nearby rest area while first responders cleared debris and investigators examined the crash scene.<\/p>\n
The lane closures caused significant delays for early morning travelers heading toward Manatee County.<\/p>\n
The Florida Highway Patrol continues to investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash and has not released additional details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg, FL – A Clearwater woman died early Sunday morning after a pickup truck allegedly ran off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[36595,1339,1776,2675,47,618,5078,5033,6336,14405,202,204,203,199,201,200,35545,192],"class_list":["post-60459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-circumstances","tag-clearwater","tag-crash","tag-driver","tag-fl","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-hospital","tag-impact","tag-passengers","tag-pickup-truck","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-sunshine-skyway-bridge","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60459","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=60459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}