The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said the man’s vehicle spun off the road and hit a concrete pole.<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A man in his early 20s was killed early Saturday after his vehicle was rear-ended, causing it to spin and crash into a concrete pole, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
JSO Sgt. Robert Hungerford said the crash happened around 3 a.m. in the 7700 block of Merrill Road.<\/p>\n
According to Hungerford, a man in his late-30s was driving a Toyota Camry eastbound on Merrill Road when he rear-ended the victim, who was also eastbound on Merrill Road and approaching the light at Wedgefield Boulevard.<\/p>\n
Hungerford said the collision caused the victim’s vehicle to “spin clockwise off the roadway into a concrete pole.”<\/p>\n
Paramedics then arrived on scene and pronounced the victim dead, Hungerford said. The driver of the Camry was not injured.<\/p>\n
This crash marks the 68th traffic fatality in Duval County in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said the man’s vehicle spun off the road and hit a concrete pole. JACKSONVILLE,…\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-255380","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\/255380","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=255380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255380\/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=255380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}