{"id":245438,"date":"2026-04-24T23:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245438\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T23:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:02:12","slug":"teen-driver-seriously-hurt-in-i-75-chain-reaction-crash-crime-crashes-and-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245438\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen driver seriously hurt in I-75 chain-reaction crash | Crime, Crashes and Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old Riverview man was seriously hurt after his car clipped a tractor-trailer on Interstate 75, stopped in the center lane and was hit by an SUV as he stood in the road, the Florida Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was driving a Kia Optima south on I-75 near mile marker 241, close to Sun City Center\/Gibsonton, around 4:39 a.m. April 19 when he tried to pass the tractor-trailer in the outside lane, lost control and spun into the truck, troopers said. His car came to rest in the center lane, and the tractor-trailer stopped on the shoulder, according to the patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The man got out and was standing in the road when a southbound Ford Explorer hit his car, troopers said. Both vehicles were pushed forward and struck him before coming to rest in the median.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to a hospital. The tractor-trailer driver, a 41-year-old Riverview man, and the Explorer&#8217;s driver, a 75-year-old Wimauma man, were not hurt, according to the patrol. Names were not released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old Riverview man was seriously hurt after his car clipped a tractor-trailer on Interstate 75, stopped in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9206,4181,1776,9189,73989,618,276,85636,9198,9200,7885,8608,35522,9201,108026,135,137,136,1576,8848,35521,9194,1777,9199],"class_list":["post-245438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-automotive-industry","tag-cars","tag-crash","tag-crimes","tag-economy-of-transport","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-interstate-75-in-florida","tag-land-transport","tag-land-vehicles","tag-motor-vehicles","tag-riverview","tag-road-infrastructure","tag-road-transport","tag-shoulder-road","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-technology","tag-transport","tag-transport-infrastructure","tag-vehicle-technology","tag-vehicles","tag-wheeled-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245438","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=245438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}