{"id":339608,"date":"2026-07-14T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339608\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:07:07","slug":"pedestrian-hit-and-killed-by-semi-truck-in-st-johns-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339608\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian hit and killed by semi-truck in St. Johns County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 14, 2026, 9:06 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A pedestrian was struck and killed by a semi during the Tuesday morning, July 14, rush on Florida 16, according to St. Johns County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/news\/crime\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">authorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/26\/NFTU\/90710486007-screen-shot-1782492405031.jpg?crop=719,405,x0,y437&amp;width=660&amp;height=371&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" data-g-r=\"vp_po\" fetchpriority=\"high\" elementtiming=\"ar-lead-image\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It happened in the 2000 block, a 7:45 a.m. posted from St. Johns County Fire Rescue said. The Sheriff&#8217;s Office added that the eastbound lanes between Outlet Mall Boulevard and Inman Road were shutdown and that traffic was being diverted to Outlet Mall Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Motorists are asked to avoid the area and seek alternative routes. The Florida Highway Patrol is handling the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:426px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/07\/14\/NFTU\/90912584007-fl-16-pedestrianvssemi-071426.png?width=660&amp;height=426&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A semi-truck remains at the scene of a fatal crash involving a pedestrian on Florida 16 early July 14 as the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office blocks off the area.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Scott Butler has been an editor\/reporter specializing in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/staff\/5514642002\/scott-butler\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">public safety coverage<\/a>\u00a0for 26 years with The Florida Times-Union. He can be reached at sbutler@jacksonville.com.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__lp gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/picture-gallery\/news\/crime\/2026\/06\/10\/dashcam-images-show-reckless-driver-at-ironman-jacksonville\/90491111007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - Images shows Jacksonville police stop reckless driver at Ironman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/10\/NFTU\/90491218007-ironmanwrecklessdriverflesspolice-051626.png?crop=927,522,x0,y134&amp;width=660&amp;height=372&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 14, 2026, 9:06 a.m. ET A pedestrian was struck and killed by a semi during the Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,47,116,118,117,112502,1145,1146,383,4493,13080,51,1156,39,5603,1758,308,307,5610,3058,34],"class_list":["post-339608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-accessmetered","tag-fl","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sourceflorida-times-union","tag-sstsnewscrime","tag-sstsncrime","tag-tagaccidents-disasters","tag-tagbreaking-news-social","tag-tagcar-accidents-and-crashes","tag-tagdeath-tragedy","tag-tagdisaster-accident-and-tragedy","tag-tagflorida","tag-tagflorida-highway-patrol","tag-tagjacksonville","tag-taglocal-news","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagpedestrians","tag-tagst-johns-county","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339608","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=339608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}