{"id":398077,"date":"2026-09-12T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398077\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:22:07","slug":"tampa-motorcyclist-killed-in-i-75-crash-on-wet-road-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398077\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Motorcyclist Killed In I-75 Crash On Wet Road: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    A 44-year-old Tampa man died after losing control of his motorcycle on a wet I-75 exit ramp early Saturday, according to FHP.<\/p>\n<p>Sep 12, 2026 12:19 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, FL \u2014 A 44-year-old Tampa man was killed early Saturday after losing control of his motorcycle while traveling at a high rate of speed on Interstate 75, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 4:40 a.m. as the man was traveling south on I-75 and taking the exit ramp to Interstate 4, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/florida\/southtampa\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist lost control of the BMW motorcycle on the wet roadway, causing it to overturn and strike a guardrail.<\/p>\n<p>The rider, whose name was not released, died at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 44-year-old Tampa man died after losing control of his motorcycle on a wet I-75 exit ramp early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-398077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398077","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=398077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}