{"id":95147,"date":"2025-12-24T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/95147\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:50:07","slug":"fhp-driver-arrested-after-hitting-pedestrian-on-gandy-boulevard-fleeing-scene-crime-crashes-and-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/95147\/","title":{"rendered":"FHP: Driver arrested after hitting pedestrian on Gandy Boulevard, fleeing scene | Crime, Crashes and Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 A 58-year-old St. Petersburg man was arrested after striking a pedestrian on Gandy Boulevard and fleeing, the Florida Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>John Guy Delucchi was driving a Ford Crown Victoria west on Gandy Boulevard near 10387 Gandy Blvd. around 4:56 p.m. Dec. 17 when a 66-year-old St. Petersburg man tried to cross the road and walked into the vehicle&#8217;s path, according to FHP.<\/p>\n<p>Delucchi hit the man and drove away, troopers said. He was later found in Plant City.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was taken to a hospital, where he died, FHP said.<\/p>\n<p>Delucchi was arrested on a charge of leaving the scene of a crash involving a death, troopers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 A 58-year-old St. Petersburg man was arrested after striking a pedestrian on Gandy Boulevard and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[618,596,10784,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-95147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-pinellas-county","tag-plant-city","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\/95147","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=95147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95147\/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=95147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}