Vehicle crash ends in Tampa Bay waters - PINELLAS BAYWAY - HOWARD FRANKLAND - 4th ST. EXIT near INTERSTATE I-275

PINELLAS COUNTY - TAMPA BAY AREA (Bay News 9) -- For the third time in two days, another vehicle has wound up in a Bay area waterway. This time, it happened on the east side of the Pinellas Bayway in between Interstate 275 and the Pinellas County beaches. According to witnesses, a Toyota pickup truck was speeding when it went out of control, hit a guard rail and flipped over into the water just after 10 p.m.

Fisherman along the bridge jumped into the water to rescue the driver of the truck. Authorities said the man was taken to an area hospital. His name and condition have not been released.

The night before, a recreational vehicle (RV) lost control and went off the Howard Frankland Bridge into Tampa Bay. A short time after that accident, an SUV crashed on the same bridge near the 4th Street exit, landing in water as well.

An investigation into the Bayway crash is still ongoing.

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Driver loses control, RV ends up in Tampa Bay near Howard Frankland Bridge between Tampa - St. Petersburg - INTERSTATE - I-275

HILLBOROUGH COUNTY (Bay News 9) -- An overnight accident on the Howard Frankland bridge sent an RV crashing into Tampa Bay. The crash happened just before midnight as the vehicle was headed north on the bridge.

The driver, from Tennessee, lost control of the motor home. The Florida Highway Patrol said the vehicle went crashing through a fence on the east shoulder of the highway and kept going into the water. There were no injuries reported but the driver was charged with careless driving.

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