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Crash shuts down Courtney Campbell Causeway

 
Published Jan. 20, 2015

CLEARWATER — All lanes of the Courtney Campbell Causeway were shut down Monday afternoon following a fatal traffic crash, police said.

A 61-year-old out-of-state man was killed, police spokesman Rob Shaw said in a release, when the truck he was driving eastbound veered off the right side of the road. The truckand hit a large portable highway sign before crossing back across traffic and striking the left lane median.

The man, whose name has not been released, was transported to St. Joseph's Hospital and pronounced dead.

Eastbound traffic was diverted at McMullen-Booth Road.