FHP said a driver did not yield to construction workers placing traffic cones on the Howard Frankland Bridge, crashing into their Ford F-550 commercial cab truck.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A Georgia man is dead following a crash in a construction zone that shut down parts of the Howard Frankland Bridge on Monday night.
The Florida Highway Patrol said this happened before 10 p.m. when a 37-year-old man from Musella, Georgia, was driving a Chevy Silverado southbound on I-275 along the Howard Frankland Bridge.
Meanwhile, a 45-year-old Tampa man driving a Ford F-550 commercial cab truck was working in an active construction zone in the area for the company Archer Western-Traylor Brothers. He and two other construction workers were placing traffic cones in the roadway.
Troopers said the Georgia man did not yield to the workers, entered the work zone and went into the closed lane before crashing into the Ford truck.
Photos provided by FHP show the Ford truck damaged with multiple cones scattered along the road.
Debris from the crash also hit a Nissan Titan driven by an 18-year-old Largo man who was heading southbound on the bridge, according to FHP.
The Georgia man died at the scene, while the Tampa man and two other construction workers inside the truck received non-life-threatening injuries. They were taken to the hospital.
The Largo man was not injured in this incident.
The crash blocked traffic along the westbound lanes coming into Pinellas County for several hours.