Buckman Bridge update: traffic fatality involved broken-down box truck close to rush hour
The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department posted an alert on its X social media account that it involved a semi and a truck.
At about 11 a.m. the Florida Highway Patrol provided a crash report that listed the victim as a 28-year-old Jacksonville man in a pickup truck. The driver of what the Highway Patrol described as a box truck was a 43-year-old Tampa man who was not injured and neither was his 27-year-old passenger.
The FHP said the pickup was southbound in the left lane of the Interstate 295 bridge, south of U.S. 17. The box truck was disabled in the left emergency lane.
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"For reasons still under investigation, Vehicle 1 entered into the left emergency lane causing the left front of Vehicle 1 to strike the right rear of Vehicle 2," according to the crash report. "After impact, Vehicle 1 then came to final rest blocking the right center and right lanes. The driver of Vehicle 1 was pronounced deceased at the scene."
(This story has been updated with information from the crash report.)
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Truck crash on Buckman Bridge in Jacksonville is a fatality
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