SUN CITY CENTER, FL \u2014 A man was seriously injured and the driver of a tractor-trailer truck was arrested in a Monday afternoon crash on Interstate 75, Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release. <\/p>\n
Northbound traffic was moving slowly on the highway around 4:30 p.m. because of an unrelated vehicle fire near the Sun City Center exit. <\/p>\n
The truck\u2019s driver made an illegal u-turn to head south on I-75 at mile marker 235, near the Hillsborough and Manatee county line, FHP said. <\/p>\n
The tractor-trailer drove into the path of a Toyota Corolla driven by a 28-year-old Parrish man and was hit by the car. <\/p>\n
The car\u2019s driver was brought to an area hospital with serious injuries. <\/p>\n
The truck\u2019s driver, 45-year-old Julio Dones Rosa of Citrus Springs, was uninjured in the crash. <\/p>\n
Troopers arrested him, charging him with reckless driving involving serious injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUN CITY CENTER, FL \u2014 A man was seriously injured and the driver of a tractor-trailer truck was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-150809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150809","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=150809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}