{"id":396175,"date":"2026-09-10T20:28:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396175\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T20:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:28:54","slug":"crash-closes-lanes-on-howard-frankland-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396175\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash closes lanes on Howard Frankland Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">UPDATED Sept. 10 with additional details from Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Southbound lanes of the Howard Frankland Bridge in Tampa were closed for a time around midday Thursday after a four-vechicle crash, the Florida Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Traffic immediately began to back up, causing significant delays for traffic from Tampa heading into St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators say at about 1:10 a.m., a Toyota Tundra lost control, drove onto the shoulder and his a barrier. The vehicle bounced back into traffic, hitting three other vehicles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver of the Tundra, a 42-year-old Tampa man, was seriously injured, troopers said. Another driver recieved minor injuries and was also taken to a hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">By 1:15 p.m., all lanes had been reopened. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATED Sept. 10 with additional details from Florida Highway Patrol. TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Southbound lanes of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1776,120923,19790,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-396175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crash","tag-frankland","tag-howard","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396175","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=396175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}