JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 One person is dead after a crash on Lem Turner near the I-95 exit. Witnesses told Action News Jax a car flew off the overpass.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really couldn\u2019t believe our eyes,\u201d said Erica Kennebrew. She and her family were about to exit I-95 when she witnessed this crash.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe saw the light pole fall, and then we heard the noise and the truck came down off of 95, hit the ground, flew up into the air. It flipped over a couple times, hit the wall of the underpass and then landed,\u201d Kennebrew said.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI saw the car banged up, and then my first reaction was, is anybody in the car? Is there a baby in the car? Is there a kid in the car? It was just tragic,\u201d said Kennebrew\u2019s son, who was also in her car.<\/p>\n Florida Highway Patrol is investigating. Their crash map says they got to the scene around 7:14 p.m. Kennebrew and her son say they\u2019re heartbroken for the family of the victim.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with that family of, you know, the driver and the victim that lost his life today. We\u2019re so sad,\u201d Kennebrew said.<\/p>\n A crash report from the Florida Highway Patrol details that the driver of the truck, a 45-year-old man from Fernandina Beach, suffered minor injuries after he traveled off of I-95 and down the embankment onto Lem Turner Road.<\/p>\n An unidentified male pedestrian was walking on the sidewalk of Lem Turner Road when he was struck by the truck flying down the embankment. The pedestrian was pronounced dead after suffering fatal injuries.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 One person is dead after a crash on Lem Turner near the I-95 exit. Witnesses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,82115,14362,5085,969,116,118,117,58888,103295,1872,144838,634,149166,115],"class_list":["post-368186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news","tag-carrollton","tag-florida_highway_patrol","tag-i-95","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jasmine","tag-jasmine_butler","tag-jso","tag-lem_turner","tag-local","tag-lynn_turner","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368186","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=368186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}