A man in his 70s died Monday, Oct. 19, when his car was struck by another vehicle in Jacksonville's Murray Hill neighborhood, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
The accident happened at about 5:45 p.m. Monday on Roosevelt Boulevard at Rensselaer Avenue, JSO said in a news release.
Driving southbound on Roosevelt, the man, driving a Honda Accord, attempted to turn left onto Rensselaer, when he was struck by the driver of a Infiniti vehicle who attempted to avoid the Honda but struck the driver's door, police said.
JFRD transported both drivers to a local hospital, where the driver of Honda was subsequently pronounced dead.
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Crash statistics in Northeast Florida
Through Oct. 15, the Florida Department
of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles reported 127 fatalities in 16,630 crashes this year in Duval County. In Duval, St. Johns, Clay and Nassau counties, 174 fatalities in 22,399 crashes were reported during the same time frame.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Jacksonville crash kills man in his 70s on Roosevelt Boulevard
