{"id":342269,"date":"2026-07-16T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342269\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:21:15","slug":"apollo-beach-i-75-crash-semi-truck-spills-lumber-causes-southbound-traffic-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342269\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo Beach I-75 crash: Semi-truck spills lumber, causes southbound traffic delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-16-080913.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">APOLLO BEACH, Fla. &#8211; A semi-truck spilled a load of lumber across Interstate 75 Thursday morning, triggering traffic delays in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Apollo Beach<\/a> and Riverview area, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida <\/a>Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FHP says troopers are responding to a vehicle crash with injuries and a roadblock on the interstate near Mile Marker 245, just south of the Big Bend Road interchange.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">An FDOT traffic camera at the scene shows the semi-truck stopped across the interstate with its trailer damaged. The truck&#8217;s load of wood spilled across several southbound lanes. All southbound lanes have since reopened.<\/p>\n<p> Traffic impacts <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Drivers are encouraged to avoid the area and use alternate routes, including:<\/p>\n<p> U.S. 301U.S. 41The Sunshine Skyway Bridge for drivers traveling south from Tampa or St. PetersburgAlternate routes north from the Parrish area <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Crews are working to remove the wreckage and clear the debris from the interstate.<\/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=\"\">Additional information, including the number of vehicles involved in the crash and the condition of those injured, has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FHP continues to investigate the cause of the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article APOLLO BEACH, Fla. &#8211; A semi-truck spilled a load of lumber across Interstate 75 Thursday morning, triggering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,629,115,202,204,203,199,201,200,729,628],"class_list":["post-342269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-traffic","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342269","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=342269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}