{"id":437139,"date":"2026-10-25T00:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T00:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/437139\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T00:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T00:20:17","slug":"tampa-police-crash-cruiser-overturns-after-colliding-with-a-hart-bus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/437139\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa police crash: Cruiser overturns after colliding with a HART bus"},"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 Tampa police cruiser overturned Saturday morning during a three-vehicle collision along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Four people went to hospitals for medical care, including a veteran officer suffering from a head cut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">HART bus riders and a car driver escaped major injury after the impact at North 34th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A <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 nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a> police cruiser overturned Saturday morning after colliding with a transit bus and a car at an East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard intersection, sending an officer and two bus riders to the hospital, according to the Tampa Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Crash flips Tampa cruiser<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the wreck happened around 9 a.m. on Saturday at North 34th Street and East Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Officials say a police patrol vehicle was traveling eastbound on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard while a Hillsborough Area Regional Transit bus headed south on North 34th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to police, a 2017 white Dodge Charger sat parked in the northbound lanes of North 34th Street as the other two vehicles entered the intersection. All three crashed, causing the<a data-ylk=\"slk:police;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\/organization\/tpd\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> police <\/a>car to flip onto its roof, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Officer and passengers hurt<\/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\">TPD stated the patrol officer, a 12-year veteran of the police force, was the only person inside the cruiser. Officials said the officer was taken to the hospital for a head cut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to police, medical crews also transported two adult bus passengers to a nearby hospital for precautionary evaluations. The man driving the Dodge Charger suffered a minor leg injury and police say he received medical clearance at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Chief issues statement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What they&#8217;re saying<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Our immediate thoughts are with all those who were involved in this morning&#8217;s collision,&#8221; said Acting Chief Brett Owen. &#8220;We are thankful that initial reports indicate no critical injuries, and we wish everyone a swift recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Detectives examine crash scene<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators have not released who held the right of way or what caused the vehicles to collide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Traffic detectives remain at the crossing collecting physical evidence, and police noted that additional findings will follow as the probe continues.<\/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 in this story was gathered from Tampa Police Department statements, which detailed officer reports and preliminary traffic crash findings from the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A Tampa police cruiser overturned Saturday morning during a three-vehicle collision along Martin Luther King Jr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-437139","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\/437139","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=437139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}