{"id":167289,"date":"2026-02-24T19:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167289\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T19:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:04:08","slug":"pickup-truck-slams-into-guardrail-on-i-275-after-drivers-medical-emergency-fhp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167289\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickup truck slams into guardrail on I-275 after driver\u2019s medical emergency, FHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Highway Patrol says a 65-year-old Clearwater man suffered a medical episode and crashed into a car, then a guardrail on I-275 in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A pickup truck driver suffered a medical episode and crashed into a car, then a guardrail on I-275 in Tampa, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol said this happened at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday, where I-275 feeds into I-4 eastbound. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FHP says a 65-year-old Clearwater man driving a Chevy pickup truck hit a car in front of him, then the guardrail several times before becoming wedged between two traffic barriers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken to the hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>The other person involved in the crash was a 21-year-old woman driving a Mazda SUV, who was not hurt and able to safely stop her vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a7fa92a9-1093-4c09-b6ae-9b2defd2359d_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a7fa92a9-1093-4c09-b6ae-9b2defd2359d_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/f98d3e88-df2c-4d22-8533-1555043116d2_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/f98d3e88-df2c-4d22-8533-1555043116d2_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Highway Patrol says a 65-year-old Clearwater man suffered a medical episode and crashed into a car,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-167289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167289","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=167289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}