Jacksonville driver killed after walking away from traffic stop on I-95, being hit by multiple vehicles in Daytona Beach

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – A 40-year-old Jacksonville man was killed Saturday night on Interstate 95 in Daytona Beach after he walked away from a Florida Highway Patrol traffic stop and was hit by multiple vehicles, troopers said.

News4JAX sister station WKMG in Orlando reports that the deadly incident happened around 7:30 p.m. in the southbound lanes of I-95 near LPGA Boulevard.

According to FHP, a trooper pulled the man over because he was possibly impaired. The trooper told the man to stay in his vehicle but he got out and didn’t listen when the trooper told him to get on the ground, the report said.

The trooper used a stun gun on the man and they had “a brief struggle” on the shoulder of the highway before the man got up and walked into the southbound lanes of I-95, FHP said.

Troopers said he was hit by multiple vehicles and died at the scene. No one else was seriously injured.

Drivers headed southbound on I-95 were detoured onto LPGA Boulevard during the investigation but lanes had reopened by Sunday morning.