{"id":181396,"date":"2026-03-06T23:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181396\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:06:07","slug":"tampa-man-killed-after-being-ejected-from-truck-on-i-75-crime-crashes-and-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181396\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa man killed after being ejected from truck on I-75 | Crime, Crashes and Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 25-year-old Tampa man died after he was thrown from his pickup truck and struck by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 75 in Hillsborough County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The man was driving a Dodge 1500 northbound when he rear-ended a Chevrolet box truck driven by a 35-year-old Valrico man, troopers said. The pickup overturned multiple times on impact, ejecting the driver into the center lanes.<\/p>\n<p>A tractor-trailer driven by a 50-year-old Riverview man then struck him, the FHP said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 6 a.m. March 3. The highway patrol did not release the names of those involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old Tampa man died after he was thrown from his pickup truck and struck by a tractor-trailer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4181,9195,1776,9189,618,276,85636,9200,7885,9196,9201,135,137,136,8848,9197,85637,9194,1777,9199],"class_list":{"0":"post-181396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-cars","9":"tag-commercial-vehicles","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-crimes","12":"tag-florida-highway-patrol","13":"tag-hillsborough-county","14":"tag-interstate-75-in-florida","15":"tag-land-vehicles","16":"tag-motor-vehicles","17":"tag-road-haulage","18":"tag-road-transport","19":"tag-tampa","20":"tag-tampa-headlines","21":"tag-tampa-news","22":"tag-transport","23":"tag-trucks","24":"tag-vehicle-industry","25":"tag-vehicle-technology","26":"tag-vehicles","27":"tag-wheeled-vehicles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181396","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=181396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}