{"id":360235,"date":"2026-08-01T20:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360235\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T20:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:34:10","slug":"leesburg-man-struck-killed-while-trying-to-cross-highway-near-tampa-troopers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360235\/","title":{"rendered":"Leesburg man struck, killed while trying to cross highway near Tampa, troopers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leesburg man struck, killed while trying to cross highway near Tampa, troopers say<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785616450_109_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Brandon Hogan\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A Leesburg man was killed and a Miami man suffered serious injuries when they were struck by a vehicle Friday night as they tried to cross a highway near Tampa, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The crash occurred around 10:50 p.m. Friday on State Road 574, west of North 68th Street, troopers said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">According to a preliminary FHP crash report, the two men were attempting to cross the highway and entered the path of a Chevy Equinox that was being driven westbound by a 72-year-old Largo man. The Chevy then struck the men, the report states.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The 42-year-old Leesburg man was pronounced dead at the scene while the 54-year-old Miami man was hospitalized for treatment of serious injuries, troopers said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leesburg man struck, killed while trying to cross highway near Tampa, troopers say HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-360235","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\/360235","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=360235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}