{"id":314317,"date":"2025-10-18T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/314317\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:58:09","slug":"unf-community-friends-and-family-host-memorial-ride-for-student-who-died-in-town-center-parkway-motorcycle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/314317\/","title":{"rendered":"UNF community, friends and family host memorial ride for student who died in Town Center Parkway motorcycle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 The University of North Florida community was expected to gather Saturday evening to celebrate the life of Hunter Ford, a student who died in a motorcycle crash earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DPuHLI3kURY\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DPuHLI3kURY\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">post on Ford\u2019s social media page<\/a>, the event was set to start at 6 p.m. at the UNF arena garage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cPlease stop by whenever you can. keep saying what up to your pookies and carry on his positivity!\u201d the post says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Ford was a 21-year-old UNF student who died in a crash on Oct. 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office, Ford lost his life in a motorcycle crash on Town Center Parkway. Investigators said Ford\u2019s motorcycle collided with a car making a left turn at an intersection. Ford was thrown from the bike and later died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Ford, a Douglas Anderson graduate who enrolled at UNF in August 2022, was known throughout campus as a content creator who frequently shared photos and videos of university life. He was also employed by the university\u2019s ITS Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">UNF had previously shared a story highlighting Ford\u2019s win at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unf.edu\/newsroom\/2024\/02\/Computer-science-major-wins-2023-AI-For-Good-Hackathon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.unf.edu\/newsroom\/2024\/02\/Computer-science-major-wins-2023-AI-For-Good-Hackathon.html\">2023 AI for Good Hackathon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The University of North Florida released a statement acknowledging Ford\u2019s passing: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 bqJyUE iQviKm block-quote\">\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 ewwUYq\">The University is saddened to learn about the passing of UNF student Hunter Ford, who was studying information technology in the College of Computing, Engineering and Construction. He also worked on campus with the ITS Department, where he will be remembered for his bright and kind personality.<\/p>\n<p>University of North Florida Spokesperson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The University of North Florida community was expected to gather Saturday evening to celebrate the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":314318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,33563,158222,46512,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-314317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-motorcycle","13":"tag-town-center","14":"tag-unf","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115397178453451610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314317","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=314317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}