{"id":269703,"date":"2026-05-13T17:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269703\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:28:07","slug":"tampa-woman-arrested-for-driving-114-mph-in-construction-zone-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269703\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa woman arrested for driving 114 mph in construction zone: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida law says speeding fines are doubled in posted construction zones when crews are present.<\/p>\n<p>PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 19-year-old Tampa woman was arrested after troopers clocked her driving at 114 mph in a construction zone while workers were present, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>It happened Tuesday, just before midnight on the Howard Frankland Bridge. FHP says Yamaira Ortiz was seen speeding through the work zone, which had a posted limit of 55 mph.<\/p>\n<p>A trooper initiated a traffic stop and placed Ortiz under arrest for dangerous excessive speeding.<\/p>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s &#8220;super speeder&#8221; law, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/regional\/florida\/100-mph-florida-new-law-super-speeder\/67-63cb0e80-4252-48b1-89f0-99fd4cd10c6f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">went into effect last year<\/a>, makes it a criminal offense to drive 50 mph or more over the posted speed limit, or to travel at 100 mph or higher, regardless of the speed limit.<\/p>\n<p>Florida law also says speeding fines are doubled in posted construction zones when crews are present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida law says speeding fines are doubled in posted construction zones when crews are present. PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-269703","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\/269703","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=269703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}