{"id":266023,"date":"2026-05-10T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266023\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:26:07","slug":"tampa-driver-charged-by-fhp-after-car-crash-kills-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266023\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa driver charged by FHP after car crash kills passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver also faces charges of driving with a suspended license with knowledge involving a death.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A woman died after a driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed. The driver suffered injuries and was charged by the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1:50 a.m. Sunday, FHP says that Cornelius Taylor, 41, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/section\/hillsboroughcounty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tampa<\/a>, as well as a 37-year-old woman who was a passenger in his car, were heading south on 56th Street, and just north of Hillsborough Avenue, he lost control.<\/p>\n<p>FHP says they struck a traffic sign and then crashed into a utility pole.<\/p>\n<p>Both suffered injuries during the accident and were taken to a local hospital, the FHP said, adding that the 37-year-old woman later died due to her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, the driver, was charged by FHP troopers with driving with a suspended license with knowledge involving a death, FHP said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver also faces charges of driving with a suspended license with knowledge involving a death. TAMPA, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-266023","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\/266023","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=266023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}