{"id":408938,"date":"2026-09-24T04:15:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408938\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T04:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:15:03","slug":"tampa-woman-killed-after-car-crashes-into-bus-stop-driver-charged-with-dui-manslaughter-fhp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408938\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa woman killed after car crashes into bus stop; driver charged with DUI manslaughter: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 49-year-old Tampa woman died Tuesday night after a car struck a culvert and launched into the air, hitting her at a bus stop, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FHP troopers arrested 33-year-old driver Benny Wallace on charges of DUI manslaughter and refusal to submit to testing after he lost control on 56th Street North near Tampa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The airborne sedan hit the pedestrian before crashing into a stopped vehicle at the intersection of Pitch Pine Circle, FHP said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EAST LAKE-ORIENT PARK, Fla. &#8211; A 49-year-old woman was killed and a man is facing a DUI manslaughter charge after a sedan crashed into a woman at a bus stop Tuesday night near <a data-ylk=\"slk:Tampa;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.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a>, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough bus stop deadly crash<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The backstory<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Troopers say the crash happened in the East Lake-Orient Park area around 7:40 p.m. on 56th Street North near Pitch Pine Circle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to FHP, a Chevy sedan driven by Benny Wallace, 33, was traveling south on 56th Street North when he lost control while approaching Pitch Pine Circle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Chevy traveled onto the shoulder, rammed a culvert and became airborne before hitting the woman at a bus stop at the northwest corner of the intersection, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FHP said the vehicle continued and then crashed into a Toyota sedan driven by a 42-year-old Tampa man that was stopped on Pitch Pine Circle at the intersection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The pedestrian, a Tampa woman, was seriously injured in the crash and was taken to a hospital in the area, where she later died, according to FHP.<\/p>\n<p>DUI manslaughter arrest<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dig deeper<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Troopers determined Wallace was impaired at the time of the crash, according to FHP. He was arrested and faces charges of DUI manslaughter and refusal to submit to testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The information for this story was provided by the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A 49-year-old Tampa woman died Tuesday night after a car struck a culvert and launched into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[162253,31059,1056,618,162254,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-408938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-benny-wallace","tag-dui-manslaughter","tag-fhp","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-pine-circle","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408938","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=408938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}