{"id":373563,"date":"2026-08-17T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373563\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:50:10","slug":"tampa-man-killed-after-semi-crashes-into-trees-in-wildwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373563\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa man killed after semi crashes into trees in Wildwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa man killed after tractor-trailer crashes into trees along SR-91 in Sumter County<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/news-team\/e7bde123-d3e0-4384-807b-b9f060165f84\" aria-label=\"Meaghan Mackey profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/e7bde123-d3e0-4384-807b-b9f060165f84_1776280999.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Meaghan Mackey\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>WILDWOOD, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A 40-year-old Tampa man was killed after the tractor-trailer he was driving crashed off Florida&#8217;s Turnpike on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash happened shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday near milepost 306.5 on southbound SR-91.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Troopers said the driver lost control of the tractor-trailer, went off the road, and hit a guardrail before crashing into several trees.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/c4d099f8-d88b-48be-b688-00bcd66406fb.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The driver hit a guardrail before crashing into trees<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/c4d099f8-d88b-48be-b688-00bcd66406fb.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The crash involved hazardous material, which crews spend nearly 12 hours working to clear overnight.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">The southbound lanes of SR-91 reopened around 5:30 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa man killed after tractor-trailer crashes into trees along SR-91 in Sumter County WILDWOOD, Fla. \u2014 A 40-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7162,13191,150800,150801,135,137,136,17139],"class_list":["post-373563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-floridas-turnpike","tag-semi-truck","tag-sr-91","tag-sumter-county-deadly-crash","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wildwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373563","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=373563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}