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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A 32-year-old Lithia <\/a>man has been arrested after crashing into a Road Ranger on I-275 Wednesday night.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n According to the Florida <\/a>Highway Patrol, 32-year-old Cedrick Travon Brown was driving a Honda Accord northbound on I-275, north of 4th Street North around 11:40 p.m. Wednesday night. The area was a current construction zone, with three northbound lanes closed, and condensing into one inside lane.<\/p>\n Despite multiple law enforcement vehicles with their emergency lights on to indicate the lane closure, Brown failed to stop or slow down and hit a Road Ranger that was stopped in traffic, FHP said.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol <\/p>\n The Road Ranger operator, a 52-year-old Plant City <\/a>man, was transported to the hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n Brown was arrested and charged with the following:<\/p>\n DUIRefusal to submit drug testDriving while license suspended\/revoked <\/p>\n According to FHP, Brown also had an active felony warrant.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: This article was written using information from the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n St. Petersburg<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A 32-year-old Lithia man has been arrested after crashing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-253174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253174","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=253174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fhp-crash-3.jpg\")
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