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Friday, August 15, 2014
The Florida Highway Patrol has identified the driver who was killed early Friday in the third wrong-way crash on Interstate 275 this year. The wrong-way driver was Edward Jose Duran, 23, of Green Ridge Drive in Tampa, the FHP said Saturday. Investigators said Duran was driving his 1997 Honda Accord about 2:44 a.m. the wrong way against southbound traffic on the highway near downtown and struck an ambulance with two attendants but no patients. Duran died at the scene and the two people in the ambulance suffered minor injuries.