TAMPA — Drivers headed to Tampa from eastern Hillsborough County may want to avoid Interstate 4.
Traffic on the interstate was backed up past Ybor City on Tuesday morning as rush-hour overlapped with a crash investigation where the highway intersects Interstate 275.
The crash happened around 3:30 a.m. after a 40-year-old Largo man led troopers on a brief high-speed chase along the highway, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The highway remained closed 3½ hours later at 7 a.m.
The incident began when Willie D. Lloyd, 40, of Largo, was spotted speeding and tailgating another vehicle near Orient Road, the Highway Patrol said. Lloyd’s car had no headlights on. A trooper tried to pull Lloyd over but he took off at speeds of more than 100 mph.
The chase ended when Lloyd crashed his car into a semitractor-trailer carrying milk. The collision happened where I-4 merges into I-275 southbound approaching downtown Tampa.
Two lanes connect I-4 to I-275 where the crash happened and both lanes were closed at 7 a.m., bringing westbound I-4 traffic to a standstill.
![The driver of this Nissan Maxima fled on a foot and a passenger received serious injuries following a high-speed chase that ended in a crash Tuesday morning on Interstate 4 entering downtown Tampa, troopers said.](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"%20viewBox="0%200%201280%20960"/%3E "The driver of this Nissan Maxima fled on a foot and a passenger received serious injuries following a high-speed chase that ended in a crash Tuesday morning on Interstate 4 entering downtown Tampa, troopers said.")
Troopers say Lloyd tried to flee on foot after the crash before he was apprehended. He received minor injuries. A 34-year-old St. Petersburg woman riding with Lloyd was seriously injured in the crash and hospitalized, troopers said. The driver of the semi-trailer was not injured.
Lloyd faces charges including DUI, DUI with serious injury, DUI with property damage, fleeing and eluding, driving with a suspended license, leaving the scene of a crash with injury, resisting without violence, possession of marijuana, possession of an open liquor bottle, and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. A warrant for his arrest on a burglary charge also had been issued earlier.
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