{"id":230351,"date":"2026-04-13T22:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230351\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:05:19","slug":"seffner-teen-killed-in-head-on-crash-identified-as-armwood-high-school-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230351\/","title":{"rendered":"Seffner teen killed in head-on crash identified as Armwood High School student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/teen-killed.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">SEFFNER, Fla. &#8211; Hillsborough County Public Schools says students at Armwood High School will have additional support on Monday after a 17-year-old student was killed in a crash on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to FHP, a Nissan Versa driven by a 40-year-old Mulberry man was traveling eastbound on State Road 574. A Volkswagen Passat driven by 17-year-old Elijah Battiste was traveling westbound.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">When the cars were near Chastain Road, the 40-year-old collided nearly head-on with Battiste\u2019s Volkswagen. After the impact, FHP said both vehicles came to a stop in the roadway where the Volkswagen was hit by another vehicle, a Ford F-150.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">PREVIOUS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/teen-killed-citrus-park-after-head-on-crash-third-driver-flees-scene-fhp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Teen killed in Seffner after head-on crash, third driver flees scene: FHP<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/teen-killed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">After the crash, the driver of the Ford fled on foot and remains at large, according to troopers.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Both drivers in the initial crash were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. The Battiste later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">It is unclear why the driver of the Nissan drove into the opposing lane.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">FHP is still searching for the third driver.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">FHP is asking anyone with information regarding the identity of the Ford driver to call *FHP (*347) or Crime Stoppers at **TIPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was collected from Florida Highway Patrol and Hillsborough County Public Schools.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol SEFFNER, Fla. &#8211; Hillsborough County Public Schools says students at Armwood High School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-230351","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\/230351","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=230351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}