JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A devastating multi-vehicle crash on Atlantic Boulevard left three people dead and four others hospitalized on Sunday afternoon after the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said a teen driver reportedly crossed the center median into oncoming traffic. <\/p>\n
JSO reported that the accident occurred around 12:30 p.m. near 5400 Atlantic Blvd. According to investigators, a juvenile was behind the wheel of a westbound Infiniti when the vehicle crossed the center median and collided with three eastbound vehicles\u2014two SUVs and a sedan. <\/p>\n
The impact was so severe that it sparked fires in two of the vehicles. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt resulted in a dynamic traffic crash,\u201d said Sgt. Hungerford of the JSO Traffic Homicide Unit. \u201cWe\u2019re still working to determine which of the three [oncoming cars] the Infiniti actually struck. We do believe it struck more than one\u201d. <\/p>\n The aftermath of the collision was catastrophic: <\/p>\n Three fatalities, with all three occupants of one of the eastbound SUVs pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n Four hospitalizations, two men from the second SUV were transported with life-threatening injuries, while the female driver in a sedan, as well as the teen driver of the Infiniti were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Part of Atlantic Boulevard was closed for several hours. <\/p>\n JSO has not yet confirmed if speed was a factor or if the juvenile driver will face criminal charges, stating the investigation into the sequence of events is ongoing. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A devastating multi-vehicle crash on Atlantic Boulevard left three people dead and four others hospitalized…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,20005,82725,82726,969,116,118,117,82728,6492,6489,54049,82727,1872,634,82729],"class_list":["post-174586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news","tag-atlantic_boulevard","tag-episcopal_high_school","tag-infiniti","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jessic","tag-jessica","tag-jessica_salinas","tag-jo","tag-js","tag-jso","tag-local","tag-selena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174586","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=174586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}