{"id":6707,"date":"2025-10-16T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/6707\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:31:08","slug":"florida-troopers-rescue-17-animals-after-van-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/6707\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida troopers rescue 17 animals after van crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Highway Patrol troopers rescued more than a dozen cats and dogs after a van crashed on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Florida Highway Patrol troopers helped get 17 animals to safety after a car crashed on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>A Chevrolet van belonging to the nonprofit shelter Friends of Strays was driving at 1:17 p.m. Wednesday on northbound I-275 when a mechanical issue occurred, according to a crash report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This caused the van to rotate and enter the shoulder before hitting a concrete barrier wall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver wasn&#8217;t injured, but the passenger might have been, according to the report. All the cats and dogs are safe and back with the Friends of Strays.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Highway Patrol troopers rescued more than a dozen cats and dogs after a van crashed on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-6707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","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\/6707","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=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}