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<\/p>\nTAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said a Tampa woman is facing multiple felony charges after leading troopers on a high-speed chase before crashing into another vehicle and seriously injuring the driver.<\/p>\n
FHP said a trooper attempted a traffic stop on a black Kia along I-275 in Tampa at around 11:30 p.m. on March 24.<\/p>\n
According to the trooper, the driver, 25-year-old Whitney Joseph, argued with the trooper before she fled the traffic stop, reaching speeds of 132 mph in a 55 mph zone.<\/p>\n
Troopers said Joseph was driving recklessly and changing lanes before attempting to pass between two vehicles and crashing into a white sedan.<\/p>\n
The sedan driver suffered serious injuries and was transported to the hospital as a trauma alert, per the report.<\/p>\n
While attempting to place Joseph under arrest after the crash, FHP said she began kicking the troopers and eventually bit a trooper before she was restrained.<\/p>\n
FHP said Joseph is now facing multiple charges, including three counts of battery on a law enforcement officer, aggravated fleeing to elude serious bodily injury or death, and resisting an officer.<\/p>\n
According to the affidavit, Joseph is also charged with DUI with bodily injury and refusal to submit to testing.<\/p>\n
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Florida lawmakers stall bill to fix \u2018confusing\u2019 school speed zone camera law as driver frustration mounts<\/p>\n
A proposed bill to require flashing lights in school speed zones with cameras failed to pass, leaving drivers to deal with \u2018confusing\u2019 signs.<\/p>\n
Fla. lawmakers stall bill to fix \u2018confusing\u2019 school speed zone camera law as driver frustration mounts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said a Tampa woman is facing multiple felony charges after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,692,618,26614,276,135,5910,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-209206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-abc-action-news","tag-arrest","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-high-speed-chase","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","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\/209206","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=209206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}