HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – A Florida Highway Patrol car was destroyed and 4 individuals, together with a trooper, had been injured after a crash during a traffic cease in Hillsborough County Sunday morning, troopers mentioned.
The crash occurred round 11 a.m. on Veterans Expressway, or State Road 589, at mile marker 12.5 on New Year’s Day, a crash report exhibits.
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According to the report, a 61-year-old FHP trooper pulled over a person, 59, driving a sedan south on S.R. 589 for dashing.
As the drivers, each from Land O Lakes, stopped on the shoulder of S.R. 589, a New Port Richey man, 52, driving a SUV “too fast for the wet roadway conditions” misplaced management on that very same street and rear-ended the FHP patrol car, the report exhibits.
The impression of the crash induced the patrol car to collide with the car in entrance of it, which additionally carried a 25-year-old passenger, in accordance with the report.
According to troopers, the patrol car, sedan and SUV all stopped alongside the freeway’s exterior shoulder.
All 4 individuals concerned in the crash sustained minor accidents, FHP mentioned.
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