{"id":225132,"date":"2025-10-14T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/225132\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:22:07","slug":"updating-breaking-news-apopka-man-dies-after-a-single-vehicle-collision-on-interstate-4-near-tampa-the-apopka-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/225132\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating Breaking News: Apopka man dies after a single-vehicle collision on Interstate 4 near Tampa | The Apopka Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Florida Highway Patrol<\/p>\n<p>Troopers from\u00a0the Florida Highway Patrol responded to a single-vehicle collision in Hillsborough County on Saturday that resulted in the death of the driver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the FHP report, at approximately 10:15 AM,\u00a0a Kia SUV, driven by a 54-year-old Apopka man, was traveling westbound on Interstate 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/theapopkavoice.com\/stories\/aaa-speeding-hits-just-as-hard-as-drunk-driving,141693?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Speeding hits just as hard as drunk driving; 40% of Floridians admit to driving over the speed limit in a new survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">West of Branch Forbes Road, the driver suffered a medical emergency and lost control of the vehicle.\u00a0 The vehicle entered the median, collided with a guardrail, and was redirected back across the highway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rotating, the vehicle entered the outside grass shoulder, struck an embankment, became airborne, and overturned in the tree line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transported to an area hospital, the driver later died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The FHP did not release the name of the driver involved in the crash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This breaking news may be updated if more details are known.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tKeywords<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tFlorida Highway Patrol,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Interstate 4 Fatal Collision,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Hillsborough County,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Apopka,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Fatal Collision\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the Florida Highway Patrol Troopers from\u00a0the Florida Highway Patrol responded to a single-vehicle collision in Hillsborough County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[80680,4,450,126328,126326,451,13678,126327,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-225132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-apopka","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-fatal-collision","12":"tag-florida-highway-patrol","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-hillsborough-county","15":"tag-interstate-4-fatal-collision","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}