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A deputy pilot with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has been suspended and an investigation is underway after a speeding Camaro barreled down a runway and crashed into airport antennas
A Hillsborough County volunteer deputy was with the pilot in the volunteer's car when it lost control on a Tampa Executive Airport runway and drove into the antennas of the Instrument Landing System on Saturday, according to a HCSO report.
The volunteer, William Nelson, was driving the car, his own personal 2013 Chevrolet Camaro.
Tampa Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident involving a pedestrian early Monday morning on North Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa.
The accident happened near West Cherry Street. Police said a pedestrian was hit and killed there. They have not released the pedestrian's name or what kind of vehicle was involved.
TPD officers continue to investigate.
The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating another wrong-way crash on Interstate 275 in Tampa.
The crash that killed one person, identified as Chase Kaleb Leveille, 25, happened early Friday in the southbound lanes of I-275 near Bears Avenue.
Troopers say an older model Honda was going north in the southbound lanes when it crashed into an Enterprise rental truck. The driver of the car died in the collision.
The truck driver and his passenger escaped with minor injuries.
The interstate was closed in both directions for several hours.
A 19-year-old woman died Saturday from injuries sustained in a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 75 in Hillsborough County.
The incident occurred at approximately 1 p.m. in the northbound lanes just south of the State Road 60 exit.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report Emaleigh Rivell was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger in the vehicle, 21-year-old John Rowland Harper of Orlando, suffered minor injuries.
A motorcycle rider was killed when he ran a red light and slammed into a car on Dale Mabry Highway at Fletcher Avenue, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
The motorcycle rider was identified as Joel Baxter Cooper, 24, of Tampa. No injuries reported in the car.
A 76-year-old Tampa woman died Saturday from injuries sustained in a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 75.
Gloria Jean Portis was pronounced dead at the scene. She was a backseat passenger in the 1999 Pontiac Grand AM driven by 20-year-old Kalen Darell Guest of Tampa.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report Guest was heading north approaching the Fowler Ave. overpass when for unknown reasons the vehicle left the roadway. The car traveled into the center median where the left side of the vehicle collided with the guardrail.