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One person trapped in car in river and killed after collision involving a tractor-trailer on the I-75 bridge over the Alafia River.

Date: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Area: 
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL
The Florida Highway Patrol has reopened all lanes of Interstate 75 at Gibsonton Drive following a fatal accident involving a car and an ABC Liquor semi truck. A FHP Sgt. says the semi and a BMW collided on the interstate around 2:30 a.m. in low visibility conditions. The car's driver skidded off the bridge and landed in water, about 20-feet below, in the Alafia River. The vehicle was pulled from the river around 4:30 a.m. with the driver still inside. Sgt. Gaskins says the driver of the BMW died at the scene. The driver of the semi was taken to Tampa General Hospital with minor injuries.

Joel Baxter Cooper 24, killed when his motorcycle crashes into car after running a red light at intersection in Hillsborough County.

Date: 
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Area: 
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL

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.

5 people killed after SUV going the wrong way on I-275 crashes into car in Hillsborough County, Florida

Date: 
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Area: 
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL
A multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 275 in Hillsborough County claimed five lives early Sunday morning. The incident occurred just after 2 a.m. and closed the northbound lanes of the roadway for over five hours. According to a Florida Highway Patrol report a 2001 Ford Expedition triggered the tragedy by driving south in the northbound lanes. The Expedition struck a 2010 Hyundai head-on just north of the Busch Blvd. exit in the center travel lane. The SUV caught fire and was quickly engulfed in flames. The driver, later identified as Daniel Lee Morris 28, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Tractor-trailer driven by Alexander J. Nealy rear-ends car stopped in heavy traffic, causing one fatality and two serious injuries in Hillsborough County, Florida

Date: 
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Area: 
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL
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.

Gloria Jean Portis killed, Kalen Darell Guest, Jordan Malik Guest injured in single car crash.

Date: 
Friday, December 27, 2013
Area: 
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL

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.

Construction worker Michael G. Pavlak, 32, hit, killed on Crosstown Expressway in Tampa, Florida

Date: 
Friday, November 22, 2013
Area: 
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL
A 32-year-old Trinity man died early Saturday from injuries sustained in an accident that occurred on a construction site. Michael G. Pavlak was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. According to a Tampa Police Department report the deceased was working with a crew on the Crosstown Expressway when he was struck by a dump truck. The incident occurred at approximately 4:45 a.m. The death is being classified as an industrial accident.
Tampa Bay may test futuristic "smart road" system

Tampa Bay may test futuristic "smart road" system

In the coming months, downtown Tampa may be host to testing a system of "smart roads." Smart roads have technology to speak to cars using "connected vehicle technology," which can let a vehicle know that a car up ahead is losing control, or warn a driver about a pedestrian crossing the street or an oncoming wrong-way driver. If the program is approved, smart roads capable of turning lights red and green to dynamically control traffic flow will be rolled out in the Channel District.