BY DAN HILDEBRAN
General manager
The Florida Highway Patrol said a pedestrian died after being hit by a sport utility vehicle, a semi, and a pickup on U.S. 301 north of Lawtey Tuesday night.
The state agency said the man was standing in the southbound lanes of the highway north of the Clay-Bradford County line around 6:45 p.m. when a driver from the Villages first struck the pedestrian.
All three drivers pulled over and waited for law enforcement after the collisions, and the pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.
First responders from Bradford, Clay, and Duval counties, as well as FHP troopers, responded to the crash.
The death marks the fourth pedestrian fatality on Clay County roads over the past month.
On November 27, a 70-year-old Jacksonville man was killed while trying to walk across the First Coast Expressway near Trail Ridge Road. He was hit by six vehicles.
On December 12, a 24-year-old Orange Park man was hit and killed while trying to cross U.S. 17 in Orange Park near Loring Avenue.
On December 14, a 36-year-old Tallahassee man pushing a shopping cart died after being hit at Wells Road and Blanding Boulevard near the Orange Park Mall.
