Troopers say the crash caused both vehicles to rotate into a ditch, sending three children and two adults to the hospital.<\/p>\n
TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A 6-year-old girl is dead after a crash involving a Temple Terrace police officer, officials say.<\/p>\n
The Florida Highway Patrol says this happened before 4 p.m. Wednesday when a 36-year-old Tampa woman was driving a Nissan Pathfinder eastbound on East Fowler Avenue with three children, ages one, eight and six, in the car. Meanwhile, a 25-year-old officer was driving a marked Temple Terrace Police Ford Explorer westbound.<\/p>\n
At the intersection, the woman made a U-turn and crashed into the path of the police cruiser, causing both SUVs to rotate into a ditch, FHP says.<\/p>\n
All five people involved in the crash were taken to the hospital for injuries.<\/p>\n
Troopers confirmed the 6-year-old girl later died while receiving treatment. The woman, the officer and the two other children all received non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
Temple Terrace PD provided this statement regarding the crash:<\/p>\n
“We are deeply saddened to learn that the female passenger involved in the crash has died as a result of her injuries. On behalf of our entire department, we extend our sincere condolences to her family and loved ones during this difficult time.”<\/p>\n
FHP is continuing to investigate this crash.<\/p>\n
Editor’s note: Officials previously told 10 Tampa Bay News that the 36-year-old driver died in the crash. The article has since been corrected to reflect that it was the 6-year-old passenger who died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troopers say the crash caused both vehicles to rotate into a ditch, sending three children and two adults…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-234364","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\/234364","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=234364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}