GULFPORT, FL \u2014 Two people were injured Friday night when the electric scooter they were on was struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run crash, authorities said. <\/p>\n
The crash happened at 7:20 p.m. at the intersection of Gulfport Boulevard and Luana Lane South. Gulfport police and fire and rescue personnel responded to the location and discovered two people lying in the roadway.<\/p>\n
Both victims, a 61-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman, are in stable condition on Monday. <\/p>\n
Deputies identified the suspect’s vehicle as a red 1997 Ford Econoline van registered to 77-year-old Eugenijus Sviderskas, the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Sviderkas admitted to driving the van and hearing a loud thud, but didn\u2019t stop, the sheriff\u2019s office said. <\/p>\n
He was charged with two counts of leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injury and one count of tampering with physical evidence. <\/p>\n
Both victims are in stable condition on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GULFPORT, FL \u2014 Two people were injured Friday night when the electric scooter they were on was struck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-67118","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\/67118","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=67118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}