SARASOTA, FL : Accused wrong-way driver arrested for DUI after crash with semi-tanker truck FHP on Sunday, 4th June 2023

A Spring Hill man was arrested early Sunday morning following a wrong-way crash on I-75 in Sarasota.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, 21-year-old Angel Eduardo Martinez was traveling south in the northbound lanes of I-75 just north of Bee Ridge Road shortly before 5 a.m. as a semi-tanker trailer was traveling northbound in the center lane.

When the vehicles approached each other, troopers say the front right area of the Martinez’s sedan collided with the right-side rear portion of the trailer.

The driver of the semi-tanker trailer suffered minor injuries in the crash.

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