{"id":184855,"date":"2026-03-09T23:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184855\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T23:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:01:45","slug":"one-man-dies-in-hillsborough-county-i-4-crash-sunday-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184855\/","title":{"rendered":"One man dies in Hillsborough County I-4 crash Sunday: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 23-year-old Plant City man died Sunday morning in a single-car crash on Interstate 4 in Hillsborough County, according to Florida Highway Patrol (FHP).<\/p>\n<p>Around 1:40 a.m., the man was driving westbound on I-4 near mile marker 7 at a high speed when he failed to negotiate a curve, entered the median and struck a guardrail, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle continued until colliding with a bridge support for the U.S. Route 92 overpass, per the release.<\/p>\n<p>FHP said the man was taken to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Officials did not identify the victim.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/REBECCA.PETIT.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Soaring gas prices disrupt spring break plans for Lakeland drivers<\/p>\n<p>The escalating war in Iran is hitting drivers right here in the Tampa Bay Area hard. Tampa Bay 28&#8217;s Rebecca Petit caught up with drivers in Lakeland who told her that soaring gas prices are crushing their spring break plans.<\/p>\n<p>Soaring gas prices disrupt spring break plans for Lakeland drivers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 23-year-old Plant City man died Sunday morning in a single-car crash on Interstate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,276,135,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-184855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-abc-action-news","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184855","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=184855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}