No closed captioning is available for traffic. Available for captioning is no closed no closed captioning is available for traffic. Fox 13s Alcides Segui is live on the ground in tampa this morning. Alcides thanks alcides. Now to a tragic story in polk county. Where deputies continue to investigate the death of a five year old boy. After he was hit by a truck. While riding his bike. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves is live near lakeland this morning. Shayla, this happened i cant begin to understand what this family must be feeling. Especially, the eight Year Old Girl who lost her little brother. Youre looking at the scene off saddlewood boulevard, around 5 oclock thursday evening. According to the polk county sheriffs office. A pick up truck struck 5 yearold Austin Crawfordas he and his sister road bikes in front of his next door neighbors home. Deputies say the boy turned and traveled into the road. The passing driver hit him. A neighbor shared memories of the child. We learned neighbors and fam
Slammed into the guardrail. His body went flying and came to rest good 20 or 30 yards away. He was speeding at such a high velocity that motorcycle kept traveling onto the onramp. Toward 275. At least another two, 300 yards. Again, it looks like, from what i can tell right now, they are almost done providing the scene. Typically when they remove the vehicle it is because they are for medical examiner to remove that body. You know, praying for him and his family as well. In terms of the traffic. You said it right. It is a traffic nightmare. Especially when youre coming i4, westbound. It is backed up for several miles. From what we understand. Past selmon expressway. So if you typically take i4 to downtown area. Or westshore or tampa international. Remember southbound 275 is closed off. So is the downtown exit east and west. They will remain closed for another half hour. Possibly more than, that thats why we are seeing backups for miles. So again avoid this area. But you said it well, sh
One or two very isolated showers moving across the state. Nothing worse than what weve dealing with over the past several days or so. I think the rest of the weekend is going to follow suit as well. Well talk about that in 7 day in just a little bit. All right. Dave, thank you. And just to recap, what a busy morning it has been earlier footage from i4 westbound at 275. Where we actually had all of those lanes closed heading on to 275 south for a few hours crash. This motorcyclist apparently hit a guardrail and was ejected. You could see the back up that is ensued afterwards. The good news is were completely normal at this point as far as the traffic and congestion that were seeing. We have a live look for you here westbound i4 in area of nebraska heading all into lanes of 275 where everything seems to be trucking along quite smoothly. And our travel times look quite nice. Ideal really. 275. All right. Vanessa, thank you. A horrifying discovery early this morning at an apartment complex
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Being stuck with that great white. Lindsay i dont think i would be in the water ever again. Alc cede lindsay to talk more about the forecast. We have rain this morning too. Showers are light, guys. Hence the reflection you see over downtown tampa. A passing light shower. 75. That a big jump from yesterday in spots and with more moisture, spotty, mainly light rain, a little heavier in a few spots. And watch how quickly the showers are pushing through. And if we have that walk with showers from Macdill Air Force base here at fox 13 studios. Temple terrace has showers, even plant city. The sprinkles in hudson and 5 a junction. Your rain is the least measurable and check out the showers southeastern bulk. Heaviest is over lareda and portions of Highland County and this will be westward over the next 15 minutes. Temperatures out the doors, no 72 in sebring. 75 in st. Petersburg. 74 in sarasota. On this date, we should be at about 69 degrees. So above average. Now the rain chances today high