A 54-year-old Largo man riding his bicycle on a Seminole sidewalk Tuesday morning was struck and killed after entering the path of a pickup truck driven by a 16-year-old girl, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash happened near the intersection of 66th Terrace North and 113th Street North and prompted a temporary roadblock along the busy corridor as investigators worked the scene.
According to a report from Tampa Bay 28, the bicyclist had been traveling southbound along a sidewalk on the east side of 113th Street North when he entered the path of a Ford F-150 traveling westbound on 66th Terrace North at about 8:15 a.m. The truck struck the bicyclist, who was taken to an area hospital where he later died, the outlet reported, citing the Florida Highway Patrol.
Florida Highway Patrol's live traffic dispatch logs recorded the incident as a “Possible Fatality” at 8:18 a.m. Tuesday, noting that it triggered a northbound roadblock along 113th Street North, per Florida Highway Patrol records. Local outlet IONTB reported the collision itself occurred slightly earlier, at approximately 8:11 a.m., with the same southbound sidewalk approach and westbound truck path described above.
Names Withheld Pending Investigation
As of Tuesday, state troopers had not released the names of either the 16-year-old female driver from Seminole or the 54-year-old bicyclist from Largo, since the crash remained under active investigation, according to a report from the Tampa Free Press. That withholding is standard practice for Florida Highway Patrol's traffic homicide investigations while officials complete next-of-kin notifications.
Florida law grants bicyclists riding on sidewalks the same rights and duties as pedestrians. Under Florida Statute Section 316.2065(9), a person riding a bicycle on a sidewalk or across a roadway within a crosswalk holds pedestrian status under the same circumstances, according to the Florida Senate. That same statute, under subsection (10), also requires sidewalk cyclists to yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and to give an audible signal before passing them.
A Pattern Across Pinellas County
Tuesday's fatality adds to a grim tally for non-motorized road users in Pinellas County. Florida Crash Dashboard data compiled by Jones Law Group shows the county recorded 805 total bicycle crashes in 2024, resulting in 639 non-fatal injuries and 13 bicyclist deaths. Countywide, the toll extends well beyond cyclists alone.
Signal4 Analytics traffic figures cited by Connect Pinellas show that in 2025, Pinellas County logged 96 traffic fatalities and 628 serious injuries, with pedestrians and cyclists accounting for 44 of those deaths and 184 of the serious injuries. The same source notes that Smart Growth America's 2026 “Dangerous by Design” report ranked the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro area as the 8th most dangerous region in the nation for pedestrians and bicyclists, based on federal crash data spanning 2015 through 2024.
Statewide, the numbers are similarly stark. Preliminary Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles statistics cited by Neal & Solevilla show Florida logged 362,063 total traffic crashes in 2025, resulting in 2,849 fatalities across the state.
Regional Push for Safer Streets
Regional planners have been working to address the crash toll. In October 2025, transportation planning agency Forward Pinellas was awarded $400,000 in federal Safe Streets and Roads for All grant funding to update its Safe Streets Pinellas Action Plan, an initiative aimed at eliminating traffic fatalities across the county.
Tuesday's crash follows a string of recent non-motorized fatalities across the region, including a fatal hit-and-run involving a Pinellas Park motorcyclist just two days earlier. The Florida Highway Patrol's investigation into Tuesday's collision remains ongoing.
