Florida Deputy John Robert Kotfila, Jr. Killed By Wrong Way Driver

Florida deputy killed after being hit by wrong way driver
FOX News
March 13, 2016

A Florida sheriff’s deputy was killed after his car collided head-on with another vehicle early Saturday, authorities said.

Deputy John Kotfila, Jr. (center) pictured with his father John Kotfila, Sr.

and his brother Michael Kotfila.(Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office)

John Robert Kotfila, Jr., 30, was a deputy at the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. He had just left a hospital where he had been working on an investigation when his vehicle collided with the vehicle of a driver who was heading the wrong way on the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway.

Erik Thomas McBeth, 31, of Hudson, was identified as the other driver in the accident and died at Tampa General Hospital, The Tampa Tribune reported. He was heading west on an elevated highway that was dedicated to eastbound traffic at the time and slammed into Kotflia’s 2013 Dodge Charger at around 2:45 a.m. in Tampa.
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