JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Wednesday morning crash on the Westside has left one pedestrian dead.
The crash happened just before 5:30 a.m. on Timuquana Road, a road with a long history of serious pedestrian crashes.
Marvin Jones walks across Timuquana on a daily basis. He wasn't surprised to hear someone was killed just a few hours earlier.
The pedestrian was struck at the intersection with Catoma Street, causing a chain reaction crash and forcing the Florida Highway Patrol to block the road.
"A lot of people they'll just say, 'Freak it,' and cross it and then you have a lot of tragedies happening," said Jones.
Details of what caused the crash have yet to be released but Action News' camera rolled as police pulled over a driver at the same intersection for speeding a few hours later and a woman jaywalking with four children.
Timuquana Road has three lanes in each direction. It takes a good 20 seconds to get all the way across. Pedestrians in the area said one problem is people don't push the crosswalk button to get across.
"Since I moved over here, it's been like maybe four or five people got hit here in less than a year," said bicyclist John Stanfield.
According to the FHP, in the last year and a half there have been 698 pedestrian crashes in Duval County. Fifty-one of those were fatal, five of them happened on Timuquana Road and of those, three were fatal.