A man was struck and killed while trying to cross Normandy Boulevard at around 8:30 p.m., the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A pedestrian was killed Wednesday night while attempting to cross Normandy Boulevard, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
The victim, a man in his mid-50s, was walking southbound near the intersection with Lane Avenue South at around 8:30 p.m., police said in a news briefing. Investigators determined he was struck by a westbound SUV in the inner lane while he was mid-block and not within a crosswalk.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to a hospital, where he later died, police said. The woman driving stayed on scene and is cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n
All lanes of traffic on Normandy Blvd. were temporarily shut down following the crash as first responders worked, but opened shortly before midnight.<\/p>\n
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says this is the 27th traffic death of 2026 and the seventh involving a pedestrian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was struck and killed while trying to cross Normandy Boulevard at around 8:30 p.m., the Jacksonville…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-160918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160918","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=160918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}