Deadly clang connected I-96 southboundDeadly clang connected I-96 southbound

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – Several Florida Highway Patrol responders spent astir 5 hours connected the country of a deadly clang connected Interstate 95 successful St. Johns County.

The clang occurred connected the southbound broadside of the interstate conscionable aft the St. Johns County remainder halt astatine 4 a.m.

The study from FHP shows a 71-year-old antheral began to transverse the southbound lanes. He was deed by an oncoming conveyance and died astatine the scene.

The operator did not halt and continued down the interstate. No conveyance statement is disposable arsenic of now, but sometimes investigators tin find a marque and exemplary of a conveyance astatine a aboriginal clip aft grounds collected from the country is analyzed.

It appears, by comparing the clip listed connected the clang study and the clip that was listed connected the FHP dispatch leafage this morning, that it whitethorn person been arsenic agelong arsenic 7 minutes earlier anyone was capable to telephone for help.

Investigators are inactive moving to notify the man’s household and were not capable to find what metropolis the antheral is from.

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All lanes of the interstate were blocked up to State Road 9B until conscionable earlier 9 a.m. Drivers were encouraged to instrumentality U.S. 1.

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