{"id":418529,"date":"2026-10-04T15:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418529\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T15:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:26:11","slug":"fhp-wrong-way-driver-dies-two-other-people-injured-in-i-295-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418529\/","title":{"rendered":"FHP: Wrong-way driver dies, two other people injured in I-295 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/eb948ed1-1fbb-4c6f-b52e-19476e791c84.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A Jacksonville Fire\/Rescue ambulance rushes to the Emergency entrance at then-named Shands Jacksonville.\" alt=\"A Jacksonville Fire\/Rescue ambulance rushes to the Emergency entrance at then-named Shands Jacksonville.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A Jacksonville Fire\/Rescue ambulance rushes to the Emergency entrance at then-named Shands Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>                Florida Times-Union<\/p>\n<p>            USA TODAY Network, Reuters<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol said a woman driving the wrong way on Interstate 295 died after a crash that also injured two other people in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>The three-vehicle collision happened shortly before 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, on I-295 just north of Interstate 95.<\/p>\n<p>The Highway Patrol reported that a 34-year-old St. Augustine woman driving a sedan was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes on I-295.<\/p>\n<p>Her car sideswiped a sedan being driven by a 23-year-old Jacksonville man. The woman&#8217;s car then collided head-on with a sport utility vehicle being driven by a 35-year-old Jacksonville man, according to the Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The SUV driver sustained life-threatening injuries and was in critical condition when rushed to the hospital. The other sedan driver suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Highway Patrol didn&#8217;t identify the drivers. An update about the condition of the two injured drivers wasn&#8217;t available Sunday, Oct. 4.<\/p>\n<p>The Highway Patrol said all three had been wearing safety belts.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: FHP: Wrong-way driver dies, two other people injured in I-295 crash<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by Teresa Stepzinski, Jacksonville Florida Times-Union \/ Florida Times-Union<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>Copyright Reuters or USA Today Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published October 4, 2026 at 10:13 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville Fire\/Rescue ambulance rushes to the Emergency entrance at then-named Shands Jacksonville. Florida Times-Union USA TODAY Network,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-418529","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\/418529","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=418529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}