The crash at the onramp from Merrill Road was reported just before 9:15 p.m., according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville man is dead after being hit by two separate vehicles on I-295 E South at Merrill Road Tuesday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
The crash happened on the highway on-ramp from Merrill Road, just before 9:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
The 70-year-old pedestrian was attempting to cross the roadway in a marked crosswalk when he was hit by a southbound sedan driven by a 62-year-old man and thrown into the grassy shoulder of the road, according to the FHP crash report.<\/p>\n
After the initial collision, a 47-year-old driver in a pickup truck attempted to assist the driver of the sedan, pulling into the shoulder and hitting the pedestrian. The man was pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crash at the onramp from Merrill Road was reported just before 9:15 p.m., according to the Florida…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-326769","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\/326769","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=326769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}