THONOTOSASSA, Fla. – An off-duty 40-year-old Hillsborough County sheriff’s detention deputy was killed Thursday morning in a crash with a tractor-trailer, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The fatal crash happened around 7:50 a.m. on U.S. 301 near Franklin Road in Thonotosassa.
The FHP said the deputy was driving a Ford F-150 north on U.S. 301 when his pickup truck entered the southbound lane for an unknown reason and was struck nearly head-on by a flatbed tractor-trailer driven by a 32-year-old Orlando man…