Child riding bike hit by vehicle on Mayport Road

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People who enactment successful the country are reminding drivers to dilatory down

Child riding motorcycle deed by conveyance connected Mayport Road

MAYPORT, Fla. – A kid riding a bicycle was deed by a conveyance astir 8:30 a.m. Wednesday connected Mayport Road adjacent Pioneer Drive.

The kid reportedly suffered superior injuries.

“He didn’t look excessively good,” said Tony Seifert, the proprietor of Bridges Auto Repair who tried to assistance astatine the scene.

Seifert said helium has seen radical speeding successful the country — which helium said is an mishap waiting to happen. It was not instantly known whether speeding was a origin successful Wednesday’s crash.

With Mayport Coastal Sciences Middle School and Seaside Charter School located connected Mayport Road, Seifert said helium would deliberation drivers would dilatory down.

“During the day, erstwhile the schoolhouse lights are connected successful the zones, it’s conscionable terrible,” Seifert said. “Even down present astatine Mayport School, it’s the aforesaid way, and they don’t larn here, and they support going down there, too.”

Seifert said helium wants Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office patrol cars positioned astatine the schoolhouse zones — which are astir 0.2 miles isolated — to assistance punctual radical to dilatory down connected Mayport Road, wherever the velocity bounds is 45 mph.

“Just beryllium much cautious. Open your eyes. Watch for the kids. Watch for the parents, and they’re conscionable zoom, zoom, zoom, don’t care,” Seifert said.

A teacher astatine Mayport Middle asked News4Jax to bash a communicative astir speeding drivers, saying she’s appalled and infuriated aft seeing the clang Wednesday greeting and losing a pupil a fewer years ago.

In March 2017, a 12-year-old lad was struck and killed by a conveyance arsenic helium was successful a crosswalk astatine the intersection of Wonderwood Connector and A1A portion walking to Mayport Middle. The pistillate who constabulary said was down the instrumentality was convicted of DUI manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years successful prison.