{"id":376320,"date":"2026-08-20T07:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376320\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T07:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:04:28","slug":"elderly-woman-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-on-jacksonvilles-westside-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376320\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly woman killed in hit-and-run crash on Jacksonville&#8217;s Westside, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the woman was crossing McDuff Avenue South at the intersection of Rexford Street when she was hit.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating after an elderly woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash on the city&#8217;s westside Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>JSO Sgt. Robert Hungerford said a woman was crossing McDuff Avenue South at the intersection of Rexford Street when an unknown vehicle struck her around 9:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hungerford, the woman was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle that hit the woman left the scene without providing aid, calling for medical help, nor reporting the incident to police, Hungerford said.<\/p>\n<p>This marks as the 114th traffic fatality in Duval County of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call JSO&#8217;s non-emergency number at 904-630-0500, or send an email to jsocrimetips@jaxsheriff.org. To provide information anonymously, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the woman was crossing McDuff Avenue South at the intersection of Rexford Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-376320","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\/376320","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=376320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}