{"id":154579,"date":"2026-02-13T17:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154579\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:34:52","slug":"driver-dies-after-tampa-bay-trucker-makes-illegal-u-turn-on-i-75-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154579\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies after Tampa Bay trucker makes illegal U-turn on I-75: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A driver who was injured in a major crash that shut down Interstate 75 on Monday has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Florida Highway Patrol said that the crash occurred near the Hillsborough-Manatee County lines after a semi truck driver attempted an illegal U-Turn at mile-marker 235.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/30a132e23a981f08216a09775108372c.jpeg\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/665b7f431d06a80755039c1e60aa90e1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The truck moved into the path of a Toyota Corolla which struck and became wedged under the trailer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The car\u2019s driver, a 28-year-old man from Parrish sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was taken to a hospital where he later died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A driver who was injured in a major crash that shut down Interstate 75&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[618,12885,135,137,136,567],"class_list":["post-154579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-interstate-75","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154579","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=154579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}