{"id":574443,"date":"2026-02-08T04:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/574443\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:50:20","slug":"2-dead-in-san-marco-crash-after-fleeing-traffic-stop-reports-of-car-break-ins-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/574443\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead in San Marco crash after fleeing traffic stop, reports of car break-ins \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Two people are dead after the truck they were in crashed into a telephone pole in San Marco early Friday after fleeing from Jacksonville police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Two others in the truck, a red Chevy Trail Blazer that was reported stolen in January, were hospitalized. One is in critical condition and the other is stable, Jacksonville police said at a news conference Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Before the crash, at about 3:42 a.m., Jacksonville police were called to a location on Hendricks Avenue for reports of possible car break-ins. Witnesses in the area reported seeing a red Chevy Blazer \u201cdriving suspiciously,\u201d around Claremont Road, police said at the news conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cPatrol officers were dispatched to a burglary in progress of a vehicle. The officer that arrived and investigated that and determined that it was actually an auto theft,\u201d Sgt R.C. Hungerford from JSO\u2019s Traffic Homicide Unit said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Officers arrived and determined that a vehicle was broken into, police said, adding that officers spotted the Blazer speeding by and attempted to pull it over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[DOWNLOAD: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The Blazer sped away from officers. Officers didn\u2019t give chase for safety reasons, Hungerford said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Moments later, the crash was reported in San Marco at the intersection of Nira Avenue and King Street, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cA Chevrolet Trailblazer was northbound and lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a telephone pole and hit a power pole\u201d Hungerford said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[SIGN UP: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a><b>] <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department responded and one person was pronounced dead at the scene. Three others were taken to hospital, and one of them was pronounced dead there. Everyone involved was a male.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">At the time of this article\u2019s publication, there were two survivors. One of them is a juvenile, who is stable; and the other person has critical injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The roadway remained closed much of the morning Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Click here<\/b><\/a><b> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><b> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><b> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Two people are dead after the truck they were in crashed into a telephone pole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":574444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,249489,249488,3188,723,248884,249487,249491,7310,12179,21132,102934,425,52970,107853,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,177391,249490],"class_list":["post-574443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-chevy_blaze","tag-chevy_blazer","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-hendrix_avenue","tag-jack_zion_dakoto","tag-jack-_zan","tag-jacksonville","tag-jfrd","tag-king","tag-king_street","tag-local","tag-naira","tag-san_marco","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-zion","tag-zion_dekoto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116033213231562342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574443","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=574443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}