{"id":68241,"date":"2025-12-02T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/68241\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:42:11","slug":"st-pete-man-dies-after-crashing-e-bike-into-car-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/68241\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man dies after crashing e-bike into car, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crash happened about a week before another deadly e-bike crash in St. Pete, which happened in the nearby area of 22nd Avenue North and 49th Street North.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A St. Pete man died the day before Thanksgiving after police said he rode his e-bike into the path of a car.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Petersburg Police Department says 55-year-old Shapon Sarder was riding a Gotrax e-bike at around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 23, in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/39th+Ave+N+%2526+49th+Street+N,+St.+Petersburg,+FL+33714\/@27.8796991,-82.6880281,12z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x88c2e37231bc6475:0x35bb8a269b47842e!8m2!3d27.8073499!4d-82.6999863!16s%252Fg%252F11f31566q3?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTEyMy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%253D%253D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">49th Street North in the curb lane approaching 39th Avenue North<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say Sarder began riding diagonally in a southeast direction and rode in front of a southbound Hyundai Sonata &#8220;for unknown reasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hyundai driver was unable to stop and crashed into Sarder&#8217;s e-Bike, throwing him off and causing serious injuries, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>SPPD says the driver stopped immediately and stayed on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Sarder was taken to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital, where he later died from his injuries on Nov. 26.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened about a week before another<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/local\/pinellascounty\/st-pete-crash-22nd-ave-north-ebike\/67-e4f793b7-7ff3-46ac-8f13-75e9fe6d52fd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> deadly e-bike crash in St. Pete<\/a>, which happened in the nearby area of 22nd Avenue North and 49th Street North.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crash happened about a week before another deadly e-bike crash in St. Pete, which happened in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-68241","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\/68241","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=68241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}