The driver was seriously injured. Criminal charges are pending.<\/p>\n
TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 One person is dead after a wrong-way driver caused a multi-vehicle crash on I-275 in Tampa Friday.<\/p>\n
The incident began around 9 p.m. when the driver of a Chevy Silverado was traveling north in the southbound lanes of East Fowler Avenue near the I-275 on-ramp.<\/p>\n
According to the Tampa Police Department, the driver hit two vehicles and continued on in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n
Less than 15 minutes later, Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) responded to a second hit-and-run involving the same vehicle on the interstate just south of Fowler Avenue. Again, the driver continued on in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n
Around 9:15 p.m., FHP says the driver reached the area of Busch Boulevard and collided with a Toyota Corolla.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both vehicles overturned and the Chevy caught fire.<\/p>\n
As the Toyota overturned it collided with a third vehicle, which then rotated and collided with a fourth vehicle.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Corolla, a 24-year-old Tampa man, suffered fatal injuries at the scene.<\/p>\n
The wrong-way driver, a 21-year-old Tampa man, was seriously injured and taken to a local hospital.<\/p>\n
No other injuries were reported and criminal charges are pending.<\/p>\n
FHP is asking anyone who witnessed or assisted at the crash scene to contact the agency by dialing *347.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver was seriously injured. Criminal charges are pending. TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 One person is dead after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-290341","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\/290341","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=290341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}