{"id":88181,"date":"2025-12-18T17:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88181\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:10:07","slug":"st-pete-man-arrested-in-deadly-pedestrian-hit-and-run-crash-on-gandy-boulevard-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88181\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man arrested in deadly pedestrian hit-and-run crash on Gandy Boulevard: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Petersburg<\/a> man is behind bars after troopers say he left the scene of a crash that killed a pedestrian on Gandy Boulevard Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to the Florida Highway Patrol, John Delucchi, 51, was driving a Ford sedan westbound on Gandy Boulevard shortly before 5 p.m. when a 66-year-old man tried to cross the highway in front of oncoming traffic near 10387 Gandy Boulevard North.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/citrus-county-woman-accused-shooting-bradenton-man-death-targeted-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Citrus County woman accused of shooting Bradenton man to death in \u2018targeted attack\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Troopers said the sedan hit the man and Delucchi left the scene after the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The victim was taken to an area hospital, where he later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Troopers found Delucchi in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/plant-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Plant City<\/a>, where he was arrested on a charge of leaving the scene of a crash involving the death of a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; A St. Petersburg man is behind bars after troopers say he left the scene&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-88181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88181","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=88181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}