PINELLAS PARK \u2014 A 27-year-old man died after fleeing a minor crash and then running a stop sign and striking a tree, according to Pinellas Park police.<\/p>\n
Yower Malvarez was driving a 2002 GMC Sierra when he collided with a 2024 Hyundai Sonata around 10:09 p.m. Dec. 12 at U.S. 19 and Gandy Boulevard, police said.<\/p>\n
Malvarez fled the scene, police said. Shortly after, he failed to stop at a stop sign at Gateway Center Parkway and Gateway Center Boulevard and hit a tree, according to police.<\/p>\n
He was taken to a hospital, where he died, police said.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Hyundai stayed at the scene and wasn’t injured, police said. That driver cooperated with investigators.<\/p>\n
Speed appeared to be a factor in the crash, but impairment did not, according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS PARK \u2014 A 27-year-old man died after fleeing a minor crash and then running a stop sign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9189,50788,596,4226,50787,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-95278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crimes","tag-gateway-center-parkway","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-park","tag-pinellas-park-police-department","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\/95278","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=95278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95278\/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=95278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}