{"id":97994,"date":"2025-12-28T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97994\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T20:39:07","slug":"man-dead-in-crash-at-st-pete-intersection-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97994\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead in crash at St. Pete intersection, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; Police say a 31-year-old man was traveling at a high rate of speed in his vehicle when he was killed in a crash Saturday night at an intersection in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, an SUV was traveling northbound on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Street North, crossing North Frontage Road at a green light.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Izell Shelby, 31, was traveling westbound at a high rate of speed on North Frontage Road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">At 9:30 p.m., Shelby did not stop at a red light at the Martin Luther King Jr Street North intersection and crashed into the SUV.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Shelby was taken to St. Pete\u2019s Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/girl-killed-crash-selmon-expressway-tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">9-year-old girl killed in US 301 crash near Selmon Expressway: FHP<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The SUV driver and her three passengers were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Speed and lack of seat belt use appear to be factors in the crash, SPPD said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Investigators say Shelby had an active warrant and a suspended Florida driver&#8217;s license.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; Police say a 31-year-old man was traveling at a high rate of speed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-97994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97994","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=97994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}