Dump Truck Overturns In 4-Vehicle Crash On I-275: FL Highway Patrol

TAMPA, FL — Two trucks, including a dump truck, overturned during a four-vehicle crash on Interstate 275 in Tampa Wednesday morning, according to a Florida Highway Patrol news release.

Two pick-up trucks, a car and a dump truck were traveling south on I-275 near Armenia Avenue around 7:45 a.m.

As traffic ahead of the vehicles slowed, one of the pick-up trucks didn’t slow down and hit the back of the pick-up truck in front of it, FHP said. Both trucks traveled into the shoulder, hitting a concrete barrier wall.

The front pick-up truck was redirected back into the travel lanes, hitting a car, and continued into the path of a dump truck, which hit it.

Both the pick-up truck and dump truck overturned on the interstate, and the dump truck spilled its load of sand on the road, the agency said.

The pick-up truck’s driver, a 27-year-old Tampa man, was seriously injured in the crash.

The other drivers — a 20-year-old Lake Placid man in the second pick-up truck, a 42-year-old Tampa man in the dump truck and a 47-year-old Tampa woman in the car — suffered minor injuries in the crash, FHP said.

The southbound lanes of I-275 were closed until about 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday.