A Tampa man died after being hit by two vehicles while trying to cross the southbound lanes of I-75 near Fletcher Avenue around 11:30 p.m., according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash briefly shut down all southbound lanes before reopening.
Late Wednesday night, a stretch of I-75 near Fletcher Avenue became the scene of a fatal attempt to cross the interstate, and the impact was severe enough that the southbound lanes were shut down for hours.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers said a Tampa man was struck by two vehicles while trying to cross the southbound lanes of I-75 near Fletcher Avenue at about 11:30 p.m.. The first vehicle was a Nissan Sentra driven by a 57-year-old woman from Sun City Center.. Troopers said the second vehicle was a Lincoln MKZ driven by a 20-year-old woman from Lakeland.. The man died at the scene.
The crash closed all southbound lanes of I-75 for several hours on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, but the lanes have since reopened.
What remains unclear is why the man was trying to cross I-75, and his identity has not been publicly released.
The sequence of events described by troopers links the timing. the location. and the vehicle details: a man was crossing the southbound lanes near Fletcher Avenue at about 11:30 p.m.. he was struck first by a Nissan Sentra and then by a Lincoln MKZ. and the resulting crash led to the shutdown of all southbound lanes before reopening hours later.
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