Teen airlifted to hospital after crash in Nassau County

HILLIARD, Fla. – A teenage boy was airlifted to a Jacksonville hospital following a two-vehicle crash Saturday night near Hilliard, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

Just before 9 p.m., according to FHP, a 35-year-old Hilliard man and a 13-year-old Hilliard boy were in a pickup truck traveling west on Murrhee Road, approaching U.S. 1. Troopers said the 35-year-old man driving the pickup failed to yield the right of way to a tractor-trailer that was traveling north on U.S. 1, and the front of the tractor-trailer collided with the left, front of the pickup. The pickup was sent careening into a ditch on the east shoulder of U.S. 1. The tractor-trailer spun through the road’s median and across the southbound lanes before finally coming to a rest on the west shoulder of U.S. 1.

The Highway Patrol said the teenage passenger in the pickup was airlifted to UF Health Jacksonville with critical injuries. Troopers said the driver of the pickup truck suffered minor injuries and the 29-year-old Jacksonville man driving the tractor-trailer was not hurt.