TAMPA, Fla. – According to a media report from Fox13 news in Tampa, a big rig driver was injured and taken to the hospital after slamming into the median on the access road leading from US-301 to westbound I-4 and US-92.
The Florida Highway Patrol says that a 54-year-old Tampa man was heading west when he lost control of the tractor-trailer.
After colliding with the median, the vehicle flipped and caught on fire.
The impact of the crash into the median caused a chuck of concrete to fly into the path of a Ford sedan.
The driver, a 21-year-old Lake Mary man, was not injured, and the sedan came to a rest along the shoulder of the highway.
Both drivers suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
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