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Getting through now and because its early traffic is still pretty light. Lets check drive times, in the middle its taking 8 minutes to get across the Howard Frankland, typically takes about six minutes to get across the bridge. We also have this crash that fhp is calling a possible fatal crash. This is in clearwater, happened eastbound olmerton road at fountain parkway. This is just east of the carilon parkway. Drivers have to get off at roosevelt and get back to 275 and come around that way because again the eastbound lanes are blocked. So if youre heading here you definitely want to leave yourself some extra time. Were also following this crash from earlier this morning in port richey, fatal crash southbound u. S. 19 at ridge road. We just got word this the southbound lanes are now open so no more delays on u. S. 19 but it has been a very busy and tragic morning on bay area roads so if you are leaving lets talk about the weath ....
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Pnot far away from that falthity pearlier this morning. Pso here is how it all began. Pright now we can tell you its paround that time window when pflorida Highway Patrol did preceive a call about vehicle paccident of some type here on pthe Howard Frankland bridge. Pthis is on the northbound side pof i275. Pwe learned those troopers parrived within 20 minutes of pgetting that call and according pto florida Highway Patrol on the pscene, this is what weve been pable to learn. Pa tow truck driver was preportedly hooking up a disabled pvehicle just before 20 30 this pmorning when he was reportedly pstruck and killed. Ptwo people from that disabled pvehicle were sitting inside of pthe tow truck at the time and pthe driver of the tow truck was preportedly working outside of pthe truck but on the inside planes of i275 northbo ....
Pgood morning. Preporter good morning to you. Pthere are still some lanes pclosed here on i275 northbound pand traffic is continuing to pbuild. Pwe can tell you that this all pstarted just before 2 30 in the pmorning when the florida highway atrol reportedly received a pcall to the mile marker 36 area. Pwithin 20 minutes, troopers parrived on the scene and we pconfirmed that this was, in pfact, a fatality. Pat this point, theres no pinformation about the person who pwas killed, no information rovided to us officially by pflorida Highway Patrol but what pwe can tell you is that minutes pbefore this call came in, we did phave a worker at fox 13 who assed by the Howard Frankland pand described seeing someone, a ptow truck driver, in the area pwhere this crash occurred ploading a vehicle onto the bed pof a truck. Pnow, several minutes later, a psecond coworker who passed by pso ....