Troopers said there were multiple warning signs, traffic cones, and law enforcement vehicles with emergency lights alerting drivers of lane closures on I-275.<\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A Lithia man is facing multiple charges after crashing into a Florida Road Ranger stopped on I-275, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
It happened at 11:40 p.m. Wednesday on I-275, north of 4th Street N, in St. Pete.<\/p>\n
Troopers say a 32-year-old man was driving his Honda Accord northbound on I-275 while an FDOT Road Ranger Ford F600 truck, operated by a 52-year-old Plant City man, was stopped in traffic in the inside lane.<\/p>\n
The remaining three lanes of I-275 were closed for construction, with cones directing all northbound traffic to the inside lane.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Advanced warning signs and arrow boards were also in place to alert approaching motorists of the lane closure,” FHP wrote.<\/p>\n
Troopers add that multiple law enforcement vehicles were positioned with their emergency lights activated to provide additional warning for approaching drivers.<\/p>\n
The driver failed to see the stopped car and crashed into the back of it, FHP said.<\/p>\n
The 52-year-old Road Ranger operator was hospitalized with minor injuries. The driver, identified as Cedrick Brown, was arrested and charged with DUI, refusal to submit, driving with a suspended license and an active felony warrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troopers said there were multiple warning signs, traffic cones, and law enforcement vehicles with emergency lights alerting drivers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-252956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252956","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=252956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}