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Troopers: Truck Crashes, Loses Load At I-75, Crosstown

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It took about three hours to clean up this load of spilled steel beams, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

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Published: September 19, 2008

Updated: 09/19/2008 07:17 pm

A tractor-trailer crash in Brandon closed down the Interstate 75 access road from U.S. 301 and the Selmon Crosstown Expressway for more than three hours this morning while crews cleared the overturned truck and its load of steel beams.

The truck was going too fast as it left the Crosstown about 6:10 a.m. and traveled east on the ramp leading to Interstate 75 North, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The truck veered across the grass and onto the U.S. 301 access road, sideswiped a Honda car and then overturned in the grass median between I-75 North and the U.S. 301 access road, Sgt. Steve Gaskins said.

The truck's load of steel I-beams slid onto the road. A Toyota driven by Susan Detimmerman, 46, of Riverview, collided with one of the beams, the patrol said. Detimmerman was not injured, Gaskins said.

The truck's driver, 42-year-old Zeron McCarthon of Tampa, was taken to Tampa General Hospital with serious injuries. McCarthon has since been discharged from the hospital.

The driver of the Honda, 37-year-old Amelia Hogue of Riverview, suffered only minor injuries and did not go the hospital, Gaskins said.

Troopers charged McCarthon with careless driving. The road was reopened about 9 a.m.

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