TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A tow truck driver was thrown from his vehicle and killed after crashing into a disabled car Sunday night on Interstate 75 near Tampa, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
Jason Lee Everitt was driving near the U.S. 301 overpass when he he hit a car on the highway’s outside shoulder and struck a guardrail. The truck overturned down an embankment and Everitt was thrown from the vehicle, troopers said in an accident report.
Everitt died at the scene, authorities said. He was a driver for Sunstate Wrecker Services, according to the report.
The people in the disabled car were not injured.