{"id":85953,"date":"2025-12-16T23:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85953\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:03:42","slug":"driver-hits-troopers-cruiser-during-traffic-stop-crime-crashes-and-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85953\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver hits trooper&#8217;s cruiser during traffic stop | Crime, Crashes and Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A St. Petersburg man crashed into a Florida Highway Patrol cruiser while a trooper was conducting a traffic stop, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened about 6:40 a.m. Dec. 11 on Bay Pines Boulevard near Seahorse Drive, according to FHP.<\/p>\n<p>A 64-year-old man driving a Jeep Cherokee east on Bay Pines Boulevard struck the marked patrol car, which had its emergency lights on, troopers said. The Jeep also hit a Ford van that the trooper had pulled over.<\/p>\n<p>The Jeep driver suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital, FHP said.<\/p>\n<p>The trooper, 24, and the van driver, a 75-year-old Pinellas Park man, were not injured, according to authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A St. Petersburg man crashed into a Florida Highway Patrol cruiser while a trooper was conducting a traffic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1776,9189,618,596,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-85953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crash","tag-crimes","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-pinellas-county","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\/85953","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=85953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}