{"id":373524,"date":"2026-08-17T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373524\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:36:19","slug":"tampa-man-dies-in-crash-on-floridas-turnpike-after-losing-control-of-trailer-fhp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373524\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa man dies in crash on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike after losing control of trailer, FHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man from Tampa died after he lost control of his trailer, the Florida Highway Patrol says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Sunday evening, FHP says, a 40-year-old driver was heading south on SR-91, <a data-ylk=\"slk:Florida&#039;s Turnpike;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/investigations\/10-investigates\/florida-crash-trucking-company-violations-post-crash-inspection\/67-8e174c69-0b44-4f1d-a69b-2a7cb2a6bfb6\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Florida&#8217;s Turnpike<\/a>, but when he reached the 306.5-mile post, near Exit 304 in Sumter County, he lost control of his trailer and died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The trailer left the highway, entered the shoulder, hit a guardrail and then crashed into several trees, the FHP said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to troopers, the injuries that the driver sustained were fatal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man from Tampa died after he lost control of his trailer, the Florida Highway Patrol says. On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1056,618,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-373524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fhp","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373524","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=373524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}