HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – Florida Highway Patrol says a wrong-way DUI driver caused a major crash in Seffner early Friday morning that shut down I-4 for 4 hours.
According to Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), troopers were notified about the driver, Arda Sengun, 21, who was traveling east in the westbound inside lane of I-4 around 3:40 a.m.
Investigators say the drunk driver crashed into a Mercedes sedan traveling west in the same lane five minutes after the initial call came in.
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A pickup truck traveling west in the center lane tried to avoid the crash but was rear-ended by a flatbed truck.
Troopers say the pickup rotated onto the outside shoulder, colliding with a parked tractor-trailer.
The flatbed truck also overturned and trapped the driver inside the vehicle.
FHP said all lanes were blocked, and the wrong-way driver was arrested for DUI with serious bodily injury.
The other three drivers were taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
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