JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A man and woman who were exchanging information in the inside emergency lane of 9B after a fender bender were hit by a car Thursday night, leaving the woman dead and the man critically injured, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
Troopers said the 38-year-old woman from St. Johns and the 35-year-old man from Harrison, Ohio, were involved in a minor crash around 9:45 p.m. Thursday on State Road 9B southbound near U.S. 1.
The pair got out of their respective cars to exchange information in the left shoulder area of the highway, FHP said.
According to the crash report, that’s when a 20-year-old man from St. Johns, “failed to stop in time to avoid the scene” and instead swerved into the left shoulder area, where he hit both the man and the woman.
The woman died at the scene, and the man was taken to Memorial Hospital with critical injuries, the report said.
The driver, who was wearing a seat belt, suffered minor injuries, according to the report.
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