The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said the driver went over a curb and struck a light pole before hitting the pedestrian.<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A pedestrian was killed in a crash on Beach Boulevard early Saturday morning after a driver reportedly lost control of their vehicle.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Traffic Homicide Sergeant Robert Hungerford said a woman in her early 30s was driving westbound in the 6900 block of Beach Boulevard around 2:36 a.m. when she lost control of her vehicle, a Toyota 4Runner.<\/p>\n
Hungerford said the 4Runner crossed into the eastbound lanes of Beach Boulevard, went over a curb, struck a light pole and rolled over before hitting the pedestrian, identified as a man in his early 20s.<\/p>\n
Following the crash, Hungerford said the man was taken to a local hospital where he died shortly after arriving. The driver was not injured, according to Hungerford.<\/p>\n
This crash marks the 69th traffic fatality in Duval County in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said the driver went over a curb and struck a light pole before hitting…\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-255547","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\/255547","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=255547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255547\/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=255547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}