{"id":139913,"date":"2026-02-01T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139913\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T20:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:03:06","slug":"19-year-old-tampa-man-dead-after-crashing-into-semi-truck-tractor-on-i-75-fhp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139913\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old Tampa man dead after crashing into semi-truck tractor on I-75, FHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bFHP says the Tampa man &#8220;for unknown reasons&#8221; entered the shoulder and collided into the tractor.<\/p>\n<p>SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 19-year-old Tampa man is dead after officials said he crashed his car into a semi-truck tractor on the shoulder of I-75.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol said the 19-year-old was driving a Honda Accord after 5 a.m. Sunday going southbound on I-75 in Sumter County. Meanwhile a 35-year-old Rhode Island man driving the tractor pulled over on the emergency shoulder due to mechanical issues.<\/p>\n<p>FHP says the Tampa man &#8220;for unknown reasons&#8221; entered the shoulder and collided into the tractor.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old died at the scene from his injuries, while the 35-year-old was taken to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200bFHP says the Tampa man &#8220;for unknown reasons&#8221; entered the shoulder and collided into the tractor. SUMTER COUNTY,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-139913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-tampa","9":"tag-tampa-headlines","10":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139913","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=139913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}