The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says the woman over-corrected after striking a curb, hitting another car and then a tree. <\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A woman was killed after crashing into a tree on Pritchard Road Monday afternoon, a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Traffic Homicide Unit official said in a news briefing.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to the scene near the intersection with Bulls Bay Highway just after 4 p.m.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe that the victim, a woman in her mid-40s, was driving east in a pickup truck when she struck a curb near the outside lane for unknown reasons. She then overcorrected, hitting a sedan in the inside lane before entering the median and hitting a large tree.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The sedan was pushed into the westbound lanes, but did not hit any other cars. The two people in the sedan did not report any injuries.<\/p>\n
The driver of the pickup truck was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced deceased.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This marks the 42nd deadly crash on Duval County roads so far in 2026, outpacing the number at this time last year.<\/p>\n
Another driver was killed Monday morning after striking a pole<\/a> in a Starbucks parking lot, while three others died Sunday in a four-car collision<\/a> on Atlantic Boulevard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says the woman over-corrected after striking a curb, hitting another car and then a…\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":["post-175753","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\/175753","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=175753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175753\/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=175753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}