JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — An 18-year-old is being treated for critical injuries, and a 59-year-old is being treated for serious injuries following what troopers are calling a “head-on collision” on Heckscher Drive.
Three other people died in the crash — 26- and 27-year-old brothers, along with a 16-year-old girl.
Action News Jax’s Courtney Cole learned weather played a role in the crash. The Florida Highway Patrol investigation is still in progress, but the agency also believes bad tires could have played a factor.
“They used to come every night to our house,” Luz Mendoza said.
Mendoza told Action News Jax the two young men who died in the crash on Heckscher Drive were her cousins.
Their names were Andalid Osorto and Edin Osorto.
Mendoza said they all lived in the same house.
“We used to play around, talk about things and everything. And I miss them,” Mendoza told Cole.
She had no idea they wouldn’t make it home from work to come and visit last night.
According to the news release sent by FHP, an 18-year-old driver of what appears to be a champagne-colored sedan was traveling southbound on Heckscher Drive when she began to hydroplane.
She lost control of the car, colliding with another vehicle that was driving northbound.
Broken glass, car parts, and pieces of other items that may have been inside the car are left behind along the road.
Mendoza told Action News Jax the 18-year-old and 16-year-old girls in the car were sisters.
According to the latest FHP data:
- FHP responded to a total of five crashes on Heckscher Drive between 2019 and 2020. Three of them were deadly.
JSO responded to 83 crashes on Heckscher Drive during the same time period, but none of them were fatal.
This is now a triple fatality crash. The third victim passed away at the hospital. We are currently in the process of opening NB and SB lanes of SR 105.
— FHPJacksonville (@FHPJacksonville) October 20, 2020
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