A 17-year-old skateboarder is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being hit by a car on Saturday morning, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. Before 7 a.m., the female teen was using the bicycle lane on Providence Lakes Road in Brandon and riding her skateboard when she was…
A scooter rider was seriously injured early Tuesday morning in a crash that closed the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 near Fletcher Avenue for an hour, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The 32-year-old scooter driver was slowly operating the scooter in the southbound outside lane at about 6 a.m.…
A Good Samaritan died Sunday morning when he was struck while trying to help a man who had been injured in a previous traffic crash on I-75, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The 59-year-old man died at the scene. A 31-year-old woman was one of the drivers taken to…
The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a crash involving a vehicle leaving the roadway in the Feather Sound area and striking two pedestrians on the adjacent sidewalk, killing one of them, according to reports. Investigators believe the crash occurred around 5:02 p.m. The driver of the vehicle reportedly failed to…
A passenger in a taxi was killed and several others were hurt in a chain-reaction crash Sunday afternoon in which alcohol played a factor, according to St. Petersburg Police. The crash happened at 38th Avenue N and 49th Street N and closed parts of the intersection for hours. A 2009…
A pedestrian was hit and killed Tuesday evening while crossing Hillsborough Avenue. The crash occurred around 7 p.m. east of Orient Road. Troopers said the 31-year-old man from Jacksonville walked into the path of a Chevy pickup truck and was hit. The pedestrian died at the scene. According to…
Another bill has been filed for the 2019 legislative session that would allow law-enforcement officers to pull over motorists for texting or talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. Rep. Jackie Toledo, R-Tampa, filed a measure (HB 107) on Monday that would prohibit drivers from talking on cell phones that…
Local leaders, and lawmakers, will meet on Monday afternoon in Tampa to announce new legislation aimed at making roads safer. The proposed legislation was written in response to a Tampa family’s pleas to crackdown on distracted driving. On September 25, 2016, a family was stopped in a traffic…
A 49-year-old Tampa Bay area woman has been charged with driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident following a wrong-way crash at Gunn Highway and Isbell Lane just before 9 p.m. Monday. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, the woman was driving a Jeep Wrangler…
A 22-year-old man has been charged in a hit-and-run Tuesday morning that left a pedestrian critically injured. The man was booked into the Pinellas County jail and charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injury and careless driving. Police said the 59-year-old woman was crossing Drew…