{"id":390933,"date":"2026-09-05T01:58:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T01:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390933\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T01:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T01:58:56","slug":"2-dead-after-crash-on-i-75-in-tampa-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390933\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead after crash on I-75 in Tampa: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)\u2014 Two people are dead after a fatal crash on Interstate-75 Friday morning, the Florida Highway Patrol announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FHP responded to a crash in the southbound lanes of I-75 near Morris Bridge Road around 4:56 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A GMC Sierra was traveling in the southbound lanes of I-75 as well as a construction street-sweeper, operated by a 46-year-old Brandon man, who was traveling in the outside lane ahead of the GMC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to FHP, near Fletcher Avenue, the GMC overtook and collided with the rear of the street-sweeper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brandon man suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the GMC was identified as a 61-year-old Spring Hill man. The passenger was identified as a 47-year-old New Port Richey woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. Stay up to date on the latest from News Channel 8 on-air and on the go with the free <a data-ylk=\"slk:WFLA News Channel 8 mobile app;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.wfla.com\/apps\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WFLA News Channel 8 mobile app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;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.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)\u2014 Two people are dead after a fatal crash on Interstate-75 Friday morning, the Florida Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8611,1056,156254,116926,8566,153660,135,137,136,567,153659],"class_list":["post-390933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-brandon","tag-fhp","tag-gmc","tag-gmc-sierra","tag-i-75","tag-news-channel-8","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfla","tag-wfla-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390933","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=390933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}