Fatigue Possibly to Blame in Fatal 1-Vehicle Crash

The St. Petersburg Police Department is investigating an early morning crash that claimed the life of a man Thursday.

According to the agency, Akeen Flanning, 30, was heading westbound on 1st Avenue North at a high rate of speed in a 2003 Mitsubishi Montero when his vehicle veered off the road and hit a tree in the 5400 block.

Flanning, police say, was not wearing a seatbelt at the time. He was taken to Bayfront Health St. Petersburg with life-threatening injuries, but later died.

Police say drugs and alcohol do not seem to be factors in the crash, but “Flanning may have been suffering from fatigue at the time of the accident.”

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