{"id":92083,"date":"2025-12-22T04:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/92083\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:14:11","slug":"fatal-crash-in-st-petersburg-involving-psta-bus-and-suv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/92083\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Crash in St. Petersburg Involving PSTA Bus and SUV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 Crews from St. Petersburg Fire Rescue responded to a vehicle crash involving a PSTA bus and an SUV on Saturday, December 20, 2025, at approximately 8:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The collision occurred at the intersection of Roosevelt Boulevard and 28th Street North. According to information provided, a PSTA passenger bus driven by a 38-year-old man from Pinellas Park, was traveling westbound on Roosevelt Boulevard and was stopped at a red traffic signal at the intersection of Lake Carillon Drive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1247\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_3185.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61288\"  \/>Heavily damaged bus following the collision<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Despite the red signal, the bus turned left into the path of a Nissan Armada driven by a 57-year-old man from Clearwater, which was traveling eastbound on Roosevelt Boulevard. The Armada and bus collided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Upon impact, the unrestrained bus driver was ejected from the vehicle. Both drivers sustained injuries and were transported to an area hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1069\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_3184.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61287\"  \/>Photo showing significant damage to front of the bus and the middle door<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A passenger in the Nissan Armada, a 57-year-old Clearwater woman, suffered critical injuries and was transported to the trauma center at Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital in St. Petersburg, where she later died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1247\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_3197.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61305\"  \/>Heavily damaged vehicle from collision with a PSTA bus<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 Crews from St. Petersburg Fire Rescue responded to a vehicle crash involving a PSTA bus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-92083","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\/92083","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=92083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}