{"id":302335,"date":"2026-06-10T09:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302335\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:11:24","slug":"florida-man-dies-after-being-struck-by-vehicle-while-standing-outside-truck-on-shoulder-of-i-4-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302335\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man dies after being struck by vehicle while standing outside truck on shoulder of I-4: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fhp-i-4-fatal-mva-2-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">POLK CITY, Fla. &#8211; An Apopka man was killed Tuesday morning when a car struck him while he stood outside his parked vehicle on the shoulder of westbound I-4, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>   Florida Highway Patrol crash <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Troopers said a 47-year-old man from Apopka died from his injuries at a nearby hospital after a crash shortly before 6:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Florida Highway Patrol reported that the man was standing outside a Chevy Silverado towing a trailer, which was parked on the outside paved shoulder of westbound I-4 near mile-marker 44.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to troopers, an Orlando driver behind the wheel of a Toyota Camry was traveling westbound when he lost control of his vehicle, veered onto the shoulder and struck the pedestrian, causing fatal injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Westbound lanes on the interstate were temporarily shut down but have since reopened to traffic.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/polk-fatal-resized-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol <\/p>\n<p>  Interstate 4 crash investigation <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">State troopers have not yet confirmed why the 50-year-old Orlando man lost control of his Toyota Camry. It remains unclear why the Apopka man had parked his Chevy Silverado and trailer along the side of the highway.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities have not announced if criminal charges or traffic citations will be filed against the driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from the Florida Highway Patrol, through an official crash report detailing the timeline and vehicles involved.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/polk\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polk County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol POLK CITY, Fla. &#8211; An Apopka man was killed Tuesday morning when a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,28,30,29,115,7153,628],"class_list":["post-302335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-polk","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302335","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=302335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}