{"id":351334,"date":"2026-07-24T17:49:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351334\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:49:29","slug":"tampa-man-accused-of-speeding-more-than-100-mph-moments-before-deadly-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351334\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa man accused of speeding more than 100 mph moments before deadly crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/luciano-ibarra-mugshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Luciano Ibarra is accused of speeding more than 100 mph moments before causing a deadly crash in Tampa. Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A 20-year-old man faces felony vehicular homicide charges after driving over 100 mph and crashing into another car on Florida Avenue, killing the driver, according to Tampa police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Tampa street speed 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=\"\">Officers went to Florida Avenue shortly before 7:15 a.m. on July 2 after getting reports of a severe two-vehicle crash. Investigators determined Luciano Ibarra, 20, was driving a blue 2022 Tesla at more than 100 mph when he hit a 2024 Volkswagen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said the Volkswagen driver was turning left into a dealership from the southbound lane when the crash happened. Officers performed life-saving measures, but the driver died at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police arrested Ibarra, who was the only person in the Tesla, on Friday. He was charged with one felony count of vehicular homicide and one misdemeanor count of operating a vehicle at 100 mph or more threatening the safety of people or property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Fatal crash victim status <\/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=\"\">Authorities have not publicly identified the victim who died in the Volkswagen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from the Tampa Police Department, which explained the crash timeline, vehicle details, and criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Luciano Ibarra is accused of speeding more than 100 mph moments before causing a deadly crash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-351334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351334","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=351334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}