{"id":228770,"date":"2026-04-12T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228770\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:25:07","slug":"fhp-searching-for-driver-in-hit-and-run-crash-that-left-17-year-old-dead-40-year-old-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228770\/","title":{"rendered":"FHP searching for driver in hit-and-run crash that left 17-year-old dead, 40-year-old injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troopers said the driver of a Ford F-150 left on foot after being involved in a crash with two other vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla \u2014 The Florida Highway Patrol is searching for the suspect in a hit-and-run crash that left a 17-year-old boy dead and a 40-year-old man injured.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said this happened just before 11 p.m. Saturday when a Mulberry man and a Seffner teen were driving on State Road 574 in their respective vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old man was going westbound when he crashed nearly head-on with the teen&#8217;s car causing both vehicles to rotate before eventually coming to a final rest, FHP says.<\/p>\n<p>A Ford F-150 then hits the teen&#8217;s vehicle before the suspect driver left the scene at foot.<\/p>\n<p>The 40 and 17-year-old were taken to a hospital with serious injuries, which is where the teenager later died.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on who was involved in the crash is asked to call *FHP (*347) or Crime Stoppers at **TIPS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fe395a82-1a8d-404b-9a67-a8a94b794744_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troopers said the driver of a Ford F-150 left on foot after being involved in a crash with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-228770","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\/228770","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=228770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}