{"id":284813,"date":"2026-05-26T15:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284813\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:26:26","slug":"tampa-man-dead-after-crash-on-howard-frankland-bridge-both-lanes-blocked-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284813\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa man dead after crash on Howard Frankland Bridge, both lanes blocked: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A fatality on the Howard Frankland Bridge has two right lanes blocked to westbound traffic in Hillsborough County, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said a Honda Motorcycle, driven by a 64-year-old Tampa man, was traveling southbound on I-275 in the outside center lane at around 4:35 a.m. on May 26.<\/p>\n<p>FHP said at the same time, a Kia Soul, driven by a 48-year-old Lakewood Ranch woman, was traveling southbound on I-275 in the outside lane.<\/p>\n<p>Near mile marker 35, FHP said the motorcycle changed lanes into the path of the Kia and was struck by it.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist suffered fatal injuries at the scene of the crash, per FHP.<\/p>\n<p>Both lanes were still shut down as of 9 a.m. on May 26, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/trafficincidents.flhsmv.gov\/SmartWebClient\/CadView.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to FHP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Tampa Bay 28 will provide more details as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ANNETTE.GUTIERREZ.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Three people injured after boat crashes into rocks on Hillsborough River: FWC<\/p>\n<p>A bystander jumped in to help after a 19-foot vessel crashed into rocks near Ignacio Haya Linear Park on Sunday night, sending three people to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Three injured in Hillsborough River boat crash near Ignacio Haya Linear Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A fatality on the Howard Frankland Bridge has two right lanes blocked to westbound&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21594,1776,3530,120923,276,19790,135,5910,108336,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-284813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-bridge","tag-crash","tag-fatal","tag-frankland","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-howard","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-28-news","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284813","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=284813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}