Crime & Safety
5-Vehicle Pileup Snarls Traffic On Interstate 4, Kills Celebration Man
One person has died following a five-car pileup Thursday on Interstate 4 west of Thonotosassa.

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL — One person has died following a five-car pileup Thursday on Interstate 4 west of Thonotosassa.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, at 7:40 a.m., a 22-year-old Kissimmee man was driving a van west on Interstate 4 and didn't see that traffic had slowed on the interstate ahead.
The van struck a sports utility vehicle driven by a 52-year-old Celebration man, causing a chain reaction of rear-end crashes with three other vehicles.
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The Celebration man was killed in the crash. The other drivers suffered minor injuries.
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