A Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority bus operator drove through a red light in St. Petersburg on Saturday, causing a crash that killed a woman riding in an SUV, troopers said.<\/p>\n
Israel J. Sanabria, 38, of Pinellas Park was driving the PSTA bus west on Roosevelt Boulevard about 8:40 p.m. and stopped at a red light at Lake Carillon Drive, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The light was still red when the driver tried to make a left turn and entered the path of a driver heading east on Roosevelt in a Nissan Armada, troopers said.<\/p>\n
The Armada crashed into the bus. Sanabria, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was thrown from the bus. A 57-year-old Clearwater woman who was riding in the Nissan was seriously injured and later died at a hospital.<\/p>\n
Sanabria and a 57-year-old Clearwater man driving the Nissan were also taken to the hospital with injuries.<\/p>\n
The Highway Patrol did not release the names of the people in the Nissan or provide information about whether the PSTA driver has been cited. A patrol spokesperson said Monday that the investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n
A PSTA spokesperson on Monday did not answer questions from the Tampa Bay Times about Sanabria\u2019s job status and directed a reporter to the Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
\u201cPSTA extends its condolences to those affected and is cooperating with investigators as they review this incident,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority bus operator drove through a red light in St. Petersburg on Saturday, causing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[49698,618,49697,713,49696,4226,12327,12824,202,204,203,199,201,200,10464],"class_list":["post-92966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-bus-operator","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-israel-j-sanabria","tag-light","tag-nissan-armada","tag-pinellas-park","tag-pinellas-suncoast-transit-authority","tag-psta","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-troopers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92966","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=92966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}