{"id":386137,"date":"2026-08-31T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386137\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:22:17","slug":"2-dead-in-us-41-motorcycle-crash-in-hillsborough-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386137\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead in US-41 motorcycle crash in Hillsborough County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PALM RIVER-CLAIR MEL, Fla. &#8211; Two people died following a multi-vehicle crash involving two motorcycles and a truck on US-41 in Palm River-Clair Mel on Friday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> US-41 motorcycle 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=\"\">FHP said at 9:10 p.m., a 44-year-old Ruskin man was driving a Chevy Colorado westbound on 24th Avenue South. At the intersection, the Chevy turned left directly into the path of a northbound Kawasaki motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Troopers say a 31-year-old Tampa man was driving the motorcycle, carrying an 18-year-old Clearwater woman as a passenger. According to the report, the motorcycle crashed with the turning Chevy.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Reports said behind them, a 20-year-old Tampa man was riding a second Kawasaki motorcycle northbound on US-41. FHP said he spotted the hazard and swerved right to avoid hitting the Chevy, causing his motorcycle to overturn.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Emergency responders rushed all three drivers and the 18-year-old passenger to a local hospital. According to FHP, the 31-year-old motorcycle driver and the 18-year-old passenger died from their injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from official crash details provided by Florida law enforcement agencies.\u00a0<\/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> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALM RIVER-CLAIR MEL, Fla. &#8211; Two people died following a multi-vehicle crash involving two motorcycles and a truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-386137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","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\/386137","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=386137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}