When asked if the driver of the SUV will face any charges, JSO Sgt. Robert Hungerford told First Coast News, “Not yet.”<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A motorcyclist died Tuesday morning after being involved in a crash with an SUV along Hodges Boulevard, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
The crash reportedly happened in the 2300 block at approximately 6:50 a.m., causing all lanes of Hodges Boulevard from Bentwater Drive to Arabella Drive to shut down temporarily.<\/p>\n
JSO Sgt. Robert Hungerford said a man driving an SUV was turning southbound onto Hodges Boulevard from Tropic Egret Drive as the motorcyclist was traveling northbound on Hodges Boulevard. The vehicles collided during the turn.<\/p>\n
The motorcyclist was then taken to a local hospital, where he died shortly after arriving, Hungerford said.<\/p>\n
Detectives are investigating if speed was a factor in the crash. When asked if the driver of SUV would face any charges, Hungerford told First Coast News, “Not yet.”<\/p>\n
The identities of the drivers were not released. However, Hungerford said the motorcyclist was a man in his mid-20s, and the SUV driver was a man in his late-50s.<\/p>\n
This crash marks as the 16th traffic fatality in Duval County in 2026, and the third involving a motorcycle, according to JSO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When asked if the driver of the SUV will face any charges, JSO Sgt. Robert Hungerford told First…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-142208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}