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TAMPA — A 30-year-old Tampa man was crushed to death early Monday when a jack failed and he was crushed beneath the disabled car he was working on, Florida Highway Patrol said.
The man died as he was working beneath a 1997 Acura sedan just after midnight on the shoulder of I-275 south near Howard Avenue.
The Highway Patrol did not release the victim’s name.
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