A 23-year-old Tampa woman was seriously injured Friday night in a crash in which her Nissan Altima went airborne, cleared a fence and landed on Tampa International Airport property.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Sarah Hastings was traveling south at a high rate of speed on Benjamin Road approaching the three-way intersection of Hillsborough Avenue around 8:35 p.m.

The car went through the intersection, jumped the center median and struck two traffic signals. It kept going, crossing the eastbound lanes of Hillsborough Avenue and entering the outside eastbound grass shoulder.

The car then took off and traveled over a fence, striking the barbed wire on the top of the fence before landing on the airport property facing south.



Hastings was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital.

