{"id":390857,"date":"2026-09-05T00:20:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T00:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390857\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T00:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T00:20:53","slug":"two-people-killed-in-i-75-crash-when-vehicle-hits-street-sweeper-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390857\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people killed in I-75 crash when vehicle hits street-sweeper: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, FLA. \u2014 Two people were killed in an Interstate 75 crash in Tampa on Friday after a vehicle collided with a street-sweeper, troopers said. <\/p>\n<p>A GMC Sierra with two people inside, was traveling southbound on I-75 at about 4:40 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, a construction street-sweeper driven by a 46-year-old Brandon man was traveling southbound in the outside lane ahead of the GMC, a Florida Highway Patrol report stated. <\/p>\n<p>Near Fletcher Avenue, the GMC overtook and collided with the rear of the street-sweeper.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The driver of the GMC, a 61-year-old Spring Hill man, and his passenger, a 47-year-old New Port Richey woman, were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the sweet-sweeper suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Two lanes were shot down due to the crash, snarling traffic on I-75. The roadway is expected to reopen by 11 am, FHP said in a release.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788567653_698_JULIE.SALOMONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pasco County physician reunites with medical team after widowmaker heart attack<\/p>\n<p>A Pasco County internal medicine physician was reunited Tuesday with the medical team who saved her life after she suffered a widowmaker heart attack nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Physician suffers heart attack at age 44<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, FLA. \u2014 Two people were killed in an Interstate 75 crash in Tampa on Friday after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1776,156254,276,8566,5858,992,156255,135,5910,108336,3670,137,136],"class_list":["post-390857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crash","tag-gmc","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-i-75","tag-killed","tag-people","tag-street-sweeper","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-28-news","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390857","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=390857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}