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TAMPA, FL – One person had to go to a hospital after they were struck by a car that backed into a McDonald’s restaurant at 100119 East Adamo Drive Thursday. 

Hillsborough County Fire Rescue responded to the area before 12:30 p.m., according to WFLA. First responders said another person was also hit by the car but did not sustain serious wounds and did not need to go to the hospital. 

A photo from the source revealed the car (which was slightly damaged) was a gray Hyundai Sonata and showed that the majority of the window was shattered, with pieces of glass spreading on the restaurant’s floor and the booths. 

TAMPA, FL – A 65-year-old man riding a Harley Davidson tried to merge into a northbound Veterans Expressway lane and hit a pickup truck with a trailer, leading to his death Tuesday. 

This collision happened after 4 p.m. near milepost 8, according to WTSP. The impact led the motorcycle to overturn and the Ford F-150 pickup truck to eventually come to rest in other northbound lanes. 

Florida Highway Patrol said an ambulance took the motorcyclist (and issued him a trauma alert) to a local hospital, where he later passed away, while the truck driver, a 26-year-old man, was unharmed. 

TAMPA, FL – A man driving a Ford F-150 suffered a medical emergency, which led him to crash into two vehicles and then a guardrail, sending him to the hospital later Monday. 

This collision happened after 5:30 p.m. on the westbound lanes of Selmon Expressway, according to ABC Action News. Florida Highway Patrol said the pickup truck driver had struck a Toyota Tacoma and Nissan Armada, which were in front of him, prior to striking the guardrail. 

The guardrail was significantly damaged. After the truck collided with a guardrail and the structural support of the upper deck, a tire of his blew out and then struck a Volkswagen Jetta. 

TAMPA, FL – Tampa Police confirmed that a pickup truck driver struck a man in the 3400th block of East Busch Boulevard before 2 a.m. Wednesday.  

Police confirmed that the man who passed away was a pedestrian, according to WFLA. When officers arrived at the scene, they found the unresponsive man. 

First responders performed CPR on the pedestrian but said he succumbed to fatal wounds.

TAMPA, FL – A man lost his life in a collision reported around 2 a.m. Wednesday on East Busch Boulevard, WTSP revealed. 

After arriving, paramedics perform CPR on the man. However, despite their efforts, the man, whose name has not been disclosed, passed away on sight. 

Tampa Police also responded to the scene. Upon arrival, they shut down East Busch between Wick Place and Larkhall Place for their investigation and for the scene clearance process. 

TAMPA, FL – A 22-year-old man and a 19-year-old man were arrested after causing a collision that claimed the life of a woman in her 60s last Monday, June 3rd. 

ABC Action News said that before 10:30 a.m. on Dale Mabry Highway, the 22-year-old man, driving a  2011 BMW, was racing the 19-year-old man, operating a black Camaro. Both men were going at a high rate, which then led the BMW driver — Andy Moya Robaina — to lose control of his car and then crash into a Nissan Versa. 

The woman in her 6os was a Nissan passenger. The Nissan driver was a man in his early 70s who was taken to a local hospital for unspecified wounds. 

TAMPA, FL – A woman in her 70s passed away, and a man in his 70s was hospitalized after their car overturned near the Hillsborough River Sunday. 

This single-vehicle collision happened before noon at West Hillsborough Avenue and North Boulevard, according to Tampa Bay Times. 

Tampa Police, who started the investigation, said it happened after the man, the driver, lost control of his convertible, leading him to drift to the left side of the road and hit a utility pole before it overturned.