- December 20, 2024
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A St. Augustine woman and a Jacksonville teen were killed in a May 31 crash on Interstate 95, a mile south of the Palm Coast Parkway exit.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Roy Roger White, 38, of Jacksonville, was driving a 2001 Chevy 1500 northbound on I-95 and for an unknown reason drifted in a northeasterly direction onto the east shoulder.
White overcorrected and traveled across the northbound I-95 travel lanes in a northwesterly direction. He entered the paved median and struck the guardrail, sending his truck airborne, flying over the guardrail and entering the southbound lanes of I-95.
While White’s truck was airborne, it struck the top of a 2008 Honda Civic driven by 56-year-old Pamela Taylor Thor, of St. Augustine. She was traveling southbound in the inside travel lane.
White’s truck then struck the right front of a third vehicle — a 2005 Chevy Silverado driven by Michael Jeffrey Mervis, 53, of Boynton Beach. Mervis was traveling southbound on I-95 in the center lane. After the collision with Mervis, the passenger of White’s truck, 17-year-old Michael Benjamin Chance, of Jacksonville, was ejected from the truck onto the outside travel lane.
White came to a rolling stop and came to final rest on the west shoulder facing a southerly direction. Thor’s Civic came to final rest facing southwest in the woodline on the west shoulder. Mervis came to a controlled stop on the paved west shoulder.
Thor was killed, as was White’s passenger, Chance.
White sustained minor injuries, and Mervis was not injured. Mervis’ passenger, 47-year-old Kimberly Patricia Martinson, of Boynton Beach, received minor injuries.
As a result of the crash, all lanes of I-95, northbound and southbound, were closed for several hours. At 11:32 p.m. May 31, they were reopened.
