{"id":150432,"date":"2026-02-10T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/150432\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:43:09","slug":"driver-arrested-after-trying-to-make-illegal-u-turn-that-caused-serious-i-75-crash-in-hillsborough-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/150432\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested after trying to make illegal U-turn that caused serious I-75 crash in Hillsborough County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hillsborough-crash-arrest-featured.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">SUN CITY CENTER, Fla. &#8211; A Citrus Springs man was arrested after trying to make an illegal U-turn that caused a serious crash on I-75 near the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hillsborough<\/a> &#8211; Manatee County line Monday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The Florida Highway Patrol said Julio Dones Rosa, 45, of Citrus Springs, was arrested for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reckless driving<\/a> involving serious injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/florida-carry-out-first-2026-execution-ronald-heath-scheduled-1989-alachua-county-murder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida to carry out first 2026 execution: Ronald Heath scheduled for 1989 Alachua County murder<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Officials said northbound traffic on the interstate was moving slowly because of an unrelated vehicle fire near the Sun City Center exit. That&#8217;s when the tractor-trailer driver tried to make an illegal U-turn into the southbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">However, the tractor-trailer went into the path of and was struck by a Toyota Corolla, which was driven by a 28-year-old Parrish man, according to troopers. That driver suffered serious injuries and was taken to an area hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Rosa was not injured in the crash, and was taken to jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was released by the Florida Highway Patrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol.\u00a0 SUN CITY CENTER, Fla. &#8211; A Citrus Springs man was arrested after trying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-150432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150432","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=150432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}