Tampa, FL : Two drivers killed in wrong-way crash on Interstate 275 in Tampa on Friday February 12 2016

Long before the sun rose Friday morning, Gene Fischer set out from his home in San Antonio for his regular commute to his post as a security guard in Tampa.
About 5:25 a.m., his boss said, Fischer called the guard he would be relieving with a request: Put on the coffee. He'd be there soon.
Moments later, Fischer steered his GMC Envoy onto the southbound exit ramp from Interstate 275 heading into downtown where he collided head-on with an Acura TL heading north in the left lane, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Fischer, 65, died at the scene, troopers said. So did the Acura's driver, 47-year-old Larry Lorenza Thompson of Tampa.
Both men were fathers and Air Force veterans. Neither was wearing a seatbelt, said Sgt. Steve Gaskins, spokesman for the Highway Patrol.
Just prior to the collision, a silver Acura TL, believed to be Thompson's, went up the Howard Avenue exit ramp to go north on southbound I-275, said Florida Department of Transportation spokeswoman Kris Carson. The sedan caused a road ranger who was getting off the exit ramp to swerve out of the way.
But investigators don't know what Thompson did between the near miss on the Howard Avenue ramp and the crash on the downtown exit ramp two miles away.
"From the Howard exit ramp, there's no way (Thompson) could have ended up where he ended up without getting off and getting back on again in the wrong direction," Carson said.
It remained unclear Friday where Thompson got off the interstate and if he got onto the downtown exit ramp at Ashley Street, Jefferson Street or Doyle Carlton Drive, Gaskins said.
"We had a whole team of engineers there looking at maps, trying to figure it out," Carson said.
Flashing lights that stop wrong-way drivers from entering exit ramps were not installed on the Howard exit ramp, she said.
Investigators were waiting for toxicology results to find out if drugs or alcohol were involved.
In a 911 call to Tampa Fire Rescue, a man at the scene of the crash told an operator that both drivers appeared unconscious and trapped in their vehicles.
"Ma'am, I got to get this guy out of here because … ," the caller says, trailing off. A moment later he tells the operator there is gasoline on the ground.
"I have a pulse on one of 'em," he says as a police officer arrives.
The front of the Acura had crumbled like an accordion and Fischer's SUV came to rest on its side. The ramp, closed after the crash, reopened about 10:30 a.m.

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Two drivers killed in wrong-way crash on Interstate 275 in Tampa