{"id":238041,"date":"2026-04-19T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238041\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:40:07","slug":"vehicle-on-i-275-crashes-into-ditch-before-catching-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238041\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle on I-275 crashes into ditch before catching fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Highway Patrol says a driver was making a last-second lane change before losing control and crashing into a ditch.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A Tampa man is safe after being involved in a crash on I-275 that set his vehicle on fire.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol said the crash happened after 11 p.m. Saturday when the 20-year-old was driving on I-275 northbound.<\/p>\n<p>The driver made a last-second lane change to exit onto Sligh Avenue before losing control, driving towards the shoulder, hitting a fence and entering the ditch.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was able to get out of the vehicle before it eventually caught fire. He was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d35e944d-1174-4099-aa31-afc308734ef2_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Highway Patrol says a driver was making a last-second lane change before losing control and crashing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-238041","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\/238041","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=238041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}