Crime & Safety
Car Drives Off I-275, Lands In St. Pete Yard: FL Highway Patrol
A car drove off Interstate 275 Thursday morning and landed in a St. Petersburg backyard, Florida Highway Patrol said.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL — A car drove off Interstate 275 Thursday morning and landed in a St. Petersburg backyard, a Florida Highway Patrol spokesperson told Patch.
The driver, a 23-year-old woman, lost control of her car at mile marker 21 just before 8 a.m.
The car left the road, hit a ditch and went airborne, landing in the yard of a home on 8th Avenue S., FHP said.
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She was brought to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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