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Date: 
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
The fatal collision occurred at approximately 11:15 p.m. on I-75, when Adrian Carlton Fedrick, Jr., 24, was traveling north in a pick-up truck towing a U-Haul trailer. when suddenly the trailer fell off the hitch. Fedrick stopped the truck and exited the vehicle when another driver on the road, 25-year-old Jessica Burgess, collided with Fedrick's disabled trailer, then a third driver, 29-year-old James Robert Connolly, struck Fedrick who was pronounced deceased at the crash site.
Date: 
Friday, February 14, 2014

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.

Date: 
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
A deadly accident shut down the southbound lanes on Interstate 75 near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Hillsborough County late Tuesday evening. The roadway was closed early Wednesday morning for a clean up. It reopened around 6 a.m. A Hillsborough County Fire Rescue Public Information Officer says the accident involved at least six vehicles including a tractor trailer.
Date: 
Friday, December 27, 2013

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.