Police say the man was trying to turn into a dealership while going southbound along Florida Avenue. At the same time, another driver was speeding northbound.<\/p>\n
TAMPA, Fla \u2014 The Tampa Police Department is investigating a deadly crash that closed the northbound lanes of Florida Avenue on Thursday morning in Tampa.<\/p>\n
Police responded to the collision at around 7:15 a.m. Preliminary information revealed that a man in his mid-20s was speeding northbound in a blue 2022 Tesla. At the same time, a man in his mid-30s was going southbound in a 2024 Volkswagen and reportedly tried to turn left into a local dealership.<\/a><\/p>\n Police say the crash caused the Volkswagen to overturn, and the driver was pronounced dead at the scene despite life-saving efforts.<\/p>\n The man who was driving the Tesla was taken to a nearby hospital, where he’s listed as “stable,” officials say.<\/p>\n Investigators are still working to confirm what led up to the crash, as well as what charges, if any, may be applicable.<\/p>\n Tampa police are asking anyone who may have witnessed the collision, or the moments leading up to it, to call 813.231.6130 and refer to report #26-389275.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say the man was trying to turn into a dealership while going southbound along Florida Avenue. At…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-329092","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\/329092","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=329092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}