{"id":241682,"date":"2025-09-20T14:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/241682\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:59:09","slug":"jacksonville-police-vehicle-strikes-kills-man-crossing-mandarin-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/241682\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville police vehicle strikes, kills man crossing Mandarin road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/76892900007.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Emergency: When to call 911 and when to use non-emergency lines<\/p>\n<p>Do you know when to call 911 and when to use a non-emergency number? Here&#8217;s some helpful information.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A man died Friday night after being struck by a Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office SUV.<\/li>\n<li>The man reportedly ran into the path of the police vehicle on Old St. Augustine Road.<\/li>\n<li>The officer involved was en route to provide security for a high school football game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office said a man died Friday night after he ran into the path of a police sport utility vehicle being driven by an officer en route to help with security at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/high-school\/football\/2025\/09\/19\/florida-high-school-football-2025-img-academy-at-mandarin\/86173998007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mandarin High School football game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who was in his 40s, was struck about 9:44 p.m. in the 11500 block of Old St. Augustine Road. He died after being rushed to the hospital, Sheriff&#8217;s Office Commander Dan Shelton said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened as police officers in two separate JSO Ford SUVs were driving southbound \u2014 one vehicle behind the other \u2014 in the inside lane of Old St. Augustine Road.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton said the man, whose name hasn&#8217;t been released, &#8220;darted&#8221; eastbound across Old St. Augustine Road into the path of the police vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>He said the &#8220;first officer swerved left but was unable to avoid striking the man with the right front of his vehicle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both officers stopped and administered emergency aid until Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department first responders arrived, took over, and rushed the man to the hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton said the officer whose SUV struck the man is being placed on administrative leave in accordance with JSO policy while the incident is reviewed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Buckman Bridge crash update: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2025\/06\/30\/truck-crash-on-buckman-bridge-in-jacksonville-is-a-fatality\/84414407007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic fatality involved broken-down box truck close to rush hour<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Officer-involved shooting: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2025\/07\/19\/jacksonville-fl-police-shooting-closes-beach-boulevard\/85294186007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville police shoot, kill man in Beach Blvd. incident<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported by the officer, whose name has not been released by the Sheriff&#8217;s Office. The department&#8217;s Traffic Homicide and Crime Scene units are investigating the crash.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 117th traffic fatality in Duval County this year and the 23rd involving a pedestrian, according to the Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency: When to call 911 and when to use non-emergency lines Do you know when to call 911&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":241683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[7285,2696,2701,691,5229,931,2332,23765,23762,4446,6006,2693,8578,2697,2488,5375,3188,723,2487,7310,16047,3228,2936,425,728,451,50,1812,450,457,40276,645,2490,6003,646,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-241682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-accidents","10":"tag-accidents-u0026-disasters","11":"tag-ai","12":"tag-america","13":"tag-and","14":"tag-car","15":"tag-car-accidents-and-crashes","16":"tag-crashes","17":"tag-death","18":"tag-death-u0026-tragedy","19":"tag-disaster","20":"tag-disaster-accident-and-tragedy","21":"tag-disasters","22":"tag-enabled","23":"tag-enforcement","24":"tag-fl","25":"tag-florida","26":"tag-highlights","27":"tag-jacksonville","28":"tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","29":"tag-law","30":"tag-law-enforcement","31":"tag-local","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-negative","34":"tag-news","35":"tag-office","36":"tag-overall","37":"tag-overall-negative","38":"tag-sheriffs","39":"tag-story","40":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","41":"tag-tragedy","42":"tag-u0026","43":"tag-united-states","44":"tag-united-states-of-america","45":"tag-unitedstates","46":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","47":"tag-us","48":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}