A 54-year-old Jacksonville woman was struck and killed by an SUV late Friday night while crossing Atlantic Boulevard near Indian Springs Drive, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report. The crash happened after 11 p.m. as the woman walked south across the road toward Indian Springs Drive, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to News4JAX, the SUV was traveling east on Atlantic Boulevard when its front right corner struck the pedestrian. The report states she was not in a marked crosswalk at the time of the crash.
Driver and Teen Passenger Unharmed
The SUV was driven by a 48-year-old Jacksonville woman, with a 13-year-old passenger also inside the vehicle. Per the same report, neither the driver nor her passenger was injured in the crash.
On Baymeadows Road, a man and his 1-year-old child were struck and killed on May 16, 2025, while crossing near Wicked Barley Brewing Co., according to Jacksonville Today.
A Baymeadows Crossing Proposal
In that stretch of Baymeadows Road, the nearest marked crosswalks sat roughly 1,940 feet to the west and 3,300 feet to the east of where the fatal crash occurred, the outlet reported, even as more than 19,000 vehicles a day traveled that segment of road. The Florida Department of Transportation later recommended installing a crosswalk with flashing lights after finding that pedestrian activity was heaviest near a path leading from the brewery.
Funding for that proposed Baymeadows crossing still depends on the city prioritizing the project through the North Florida Transportation Planning Organization, per Jacksonville Today's reporting. It remains unclear whether any similar safety review or crosswalk improvement is being considered for the Atlantic Boulevard corridor where Friday night's fatal crash occurred.
