{"id":176690,"date":"2026-03-03T19:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176690\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:34:23","slug":"tampa-man-hit-killed-by-tractor-trailer-following-i-75-crash-that-closed-interstates-northbound-lanes-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176690\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa man hit, killed by tractor-trailer following I-75 crash that closed interstate&#8217;s northbound lanes: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/44328110788.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; All lanes of northbound I-75 have reopened near Bruce B Downs Blvd. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hillsborough County<\/a> following a deadly crash that snarled traffic during the morning commute for hours, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida<\/a> Highway Patrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Troopers said a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa <\/a>man was traveling northbound in the outside lane of I-75 around 6 a.m. on Tuesday when he crashed into the back of a Chevy box truck as he tried to overtake the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol <\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Post-collision, troopers said the box truck came to a final rest on the shoulder of the highway while the Tampa man\u2019s Dodge 1500 rolled over several times, throwing him into the center lanes, where he was struck by a tractor-trailer that was also traveling northbound.<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">The Tampa man died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Troopers did not provide information on any injuries the other drivers may have sustained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information from the Florida Highway Patrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; All lanes of northbound I-75 have reopened near Bruce B Downs Blvd. in Hillsborough&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-176690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","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\/176690","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=176690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}