{"id":99945,"date":"2025-12-30T12:49:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99945\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:49:27","slug":"man-dead-in-crash-at-st-pete-intersection-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99945\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead in crash at St. Pete intersection, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At 9:30 p.m., Izell Shelby did not stop at a red light at the Martin Luther King Jr Street North intersection and crashed into an SUV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shelby passed away at St. Pete\u2019s Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital. The SUV driver and her three passengers were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The backstory<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Izell Shelby, 31, was traveling westbound at a high rate of speed on North Frontage Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shelby was taken to St. Pete\u2019s Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/girl-killed-crash-selmon-expressway-tampa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:9-year-old girl killed in US 301 crash near Selmon Expressway: FHP;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">9-year-old girl killed in US 301 crash near Selmon Expressway: FHP<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The SUV driver and her three passengers were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Speed and lack of seat belt use appear to be factors in the crash, SPPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say Shelby had an active warrant and a suspended Florida driver&#8217;s license.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information for this story was provided by the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Police say a 31-year-old man was traveling at a high rate of speed in his vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[52494,42554,52495,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-99945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-izell-shelby","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-north-frontage-road","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\/99945","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=99945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}