Search on for trucker after 18-wheeler crashes into Tampa Bypass Canal off I-75

An 18-wheeler plunged into the Tampa Bypass Canal on I-75 in Hillsborough County early Monday morning, according to Hillsborough Fire Rescue. First responders were called to the scene near Mile Marker 263 at 2:35 a.m. The first unit on scene found the 18-wheeler “teetering on the guard rail, with the cab still out of the water,” according to a fire rescue news release. About 15 minutes after the call, the cab had become submerged. Fire Rescue was trying to get access to the cab. “The number of patients and their...