A 42-year-old Plantation man died Sunday after his Tesla overturned on Interstate 75 near Laurel Road in south Sarasota County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The man was driving a 2026 Tesla Model Y south on I-75 when the vehicle left the roadway, entered the grass median and overturned, troopers said.
The driver was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. The crash occurred at 4:54 p.m. Oct. 25 near mile marker 195, north of Jacaranda Boulevard.
FHP did not release the man's name. The crash remains under investigation.
Florida’s 2026 crash statistics
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles reports there were 284,831 crashes in Florida through Oct. 22, 2026, including 1,991 fatalities.
The department’s Florida Crash Dashboard also
reported 183,019 injuries, 1,848 fatal crashes and 122,393 injury crashes statewide during the same period.
Wade Tatangelo is the executive editor of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and Florida dining and entertainment editor for the USA TODAY Network. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram, and X. He can be reached by email at wade.tatangelo@heraldtribune.com. Support local journalism by subscribing.
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