{"id":97314,"date":"2025-12-28T05:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T05:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97314\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T05:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T05:25:06","slug":"1-dead-multiple-injured-in-gandy-boulevard-during-fatal-crash-in-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97314\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, multiple injured in Gandy Boulevard during fatal crash in St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police said they tried to pull over the car at first. As the driver tried to evade officers, he ended up hitting a car and crashing into an SUV.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 One person died, and multiple people were injured after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/video\/traffic\/emergency-crews-in-st-pete-respond-to-a-crash-involving-two-cars-on-gandy-boulevard\/67-8363bc61-be72-4fc7-a77e-7241c71bf62c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">car crash<\/a> incident took place when St. Pete police tried to pull over a speeding vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Around 9:20 p.m. on Saturday, police said a Dodge Challenger was headed east. As the driver was seen by officers, they attempted to pull him over. Officers said they did not pursue.<\/p>\n<p>Police said, the driver, instead of stopping, did a U-turn across Gandy Boulevard in front of WinDerby, hitting another car in the process. Nobody was hurt at this moment.<\/p>\n<p>After the first collision, officers say, the driver continued west until he hit an SUV on Martin Luther King Jr. Street North, under Gandy Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Four people inside the SUV, as well as the driver of the Challenger, were taken to a hospital nearby. The driver of the Challenger died as a result of the crash, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said they tried to pull over the car at first. As the driver tried to evade officers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-97314","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\/97314","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=97314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}