From the Florida Highway Patrol and Staff Reports
Troopers from the Florida Highway Patrol responded to a three-vehicle collision last night in Hillsborough County that resulted in the death of a driver.
According to the FHP report, at approximately 11:30 p.m., a tractor-trailer, driven by a 25-year-old Gainesville man was traveling northbound on Interstate 75.
North of Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, the tractor-trailer became disabled and stopped along the outside shoulder of the highway.
At the same time, a Hyundai Sonata, driven by a 27-year-old Ocala man and brother of the tractor-trailer driver, stopped just ahead of the vehicle to render assistance.
Then, a Ford F-350 pickup truck towing a cattle trailer, driven by a 23-year-old Campbellsville, Kentucky man, was traveling northbound on I-75. The driver drifted onto the shoulder of the highway as the vehicle overtook the two vehicles.
The pickup truck first collided with the driver’s side of the tractor-trailer, then continued forward and collided with the Sonata driver, who had exited his vehicle to render assistance.
The pickup continued still further before finally colliding with Vehicle 3. Driver 3 suffered fatal injuries at the scene of the crash.
After the impact, the pickup driver fled the crash scene and traveled to a Gate gas station on State Road 56 and Cypress Ridge Boulevard.
An FHP Trooper soon located the driver at the gas station where he was changing a tire. The driver, Noah Alexander Riley, was arrested for leaving the scene of a crash involving a death and delivered to the Hillsborough County Jail.
The FHP did not release the names of the other drivers involved in the collision.
This is breaking news and may be updated if more details are known.
