Florida Highway Patrol said the motorcyclist was traveling at a “high rate of speed” before the crash occurred.<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A motorcyclist was killed and two others were seriously injured in a crash on Jacksonville’s Northside just after midnight Saturday, according to Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
FHP said that around 12:30 a.m., the motorcyclist, identified as a 32-year-old man from Jonesboro, Ga., was traveling northbound on US-17 at a “high rate of speed.”<\/p>\n
Two sedans were reportedly stopped at a red light in the northbound lanes of US-17 at the intersection of New Berlin Road.<\/p>\n
According to a release from FHP, the motorcyclist “failed to stop” and rear-ended one of the sedans, causing that vehicle to rear-end the second sedan.<\/p>\n
“All three vehicles traveled a short distance and came to final rest blocking the northbound travel lanes of US-17 and the intersection of New Berlin Road,” the release states.<\/p>\n
The drivers of the sedans, a 65-year-old woman and 42-year-old man, both from Jacksonville, were taken to a local hospital, FHP said. The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
The identities of the individuals involved were not released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Highway Patrol said the motorcyclist was traveling at a “high rate of speed” before the crash occurred.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-163745","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\/163745","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=163745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}