TAMPA, Fla. — A 23-year-old was arrested for driving under the influence Sunday night after he hit a teen who was standing on the inside shoulder on Interstate 275 in Hillsborough County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
According to the agency, an Infiniti sedan was traveling northbound on I-275 in Hillsborough County, just north of I-4, when another car was parked along the inside shoulder.
The 19-year-old driver of the parked, and reportedly disabled, car was standing outside the vehicle. This is when the 23-year-old, identified as Dane Jones, reportedly lost control of his car on the wet road, rotated in the shoulder and hit both the teen and his car.
The teen was thrown over the barrier wall from the impact and ended up in the southbound lanes of the interstate, FHP explains.
Following the crash, the teen was taken to a hospital with serious injuries.
Jones was later arrested for DUI serious injury, DUI property damage and driving with a suspended license involving serious injury.
As a result of the crash, I-275 northbound at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and I-275 southbound at Hillsborough Avenue were closed, the Tampa Police Department said in a statement. By 3:30 a.m. Monday, all of I-275 were reopened.
At the time, traffic cameras showed heavy traffic on the interstate and multiple law enforcement patrol cars in the area.