Two injured after SUV veers off I-95, strikes tree

Rescuers took the driver and passenger to Halifax Health.


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  • | 6:00 p.m. June 2, 2023
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Two Jacksonville residents were hospitalized after their car swerved off  Interstate 95 in Palm Coast and struck a tree the morning of June 2. 

The driver, a 53-year-old man, was heading south in a sport utility vehicle with a 66-year-old woman in the passenger seat when the car veered onto the right shoulder of the road at about 7:11 a.m. and hit a tree near Mile Marker 294, according to a news release from the Florida Highway Patrol. 

Rescuers extracted the passenger from the vehicle. She sustained serious injuries, while the driver sustained minor injuries. Both were taken to Halifax Hospital, according to the news release.

 

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