CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – A roadside memorial remains along Sandridge Road a week after a 14-year-old boy was killed in an e-bike crash in Lake Asbury.
Funeral services for Carson Farias will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Russell Funeral Home in Green Cove Springs.
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Clay County confirmed that the deadly crash remains under active investigation by the Florida Highway Patrol.
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In the meantime, residents continue to raise concerns about safety along Sandridge Road, which FHP noted was “unlit” at the time of the crash.
“A lot of people are constantly talking about the lights — we don’t have lights on this road. We’ve got a lot of new communities and a lot of new houses going in,“ resident Courtney Bailey said. ”I don’t think anybody was fully prepared for the traffic that was about to hit Sandridge.”
Sandridge Road, also known as County Road 739 B, is under the jurisdiction of Clay County.
A county spokesperson said that because the road is in a residential area, it would not be lit the same way a commercial road would be.
After a similar incident 10 years ago in Jacksonville, where a teen walking to his bus stop was hit and killed on an unlit stretch of residential road, the city of Jacksonville asked JEA to install light poles along Matthew Unger Drive in East Arlington.
The Clay County spokesperson said a portion of Sandridge Road had recently been repaved as part of safety improvements completed before last week’s crash.
Parent calls for e-bike safety education
One local parent said it will take efforts from multiple parties to create meaningful change.
Nicole Alder, a Lake Asbury parent, said she believes schools should play a bigger role in teaching young riders about road safety.
“You think it would be really great if ... there was maybe at least like once per year or per semester, a class that was mandatory to all the kids on road safety, where you know, especially electric scooter safety or e-bike safety, and those kinds of things could be addressed,” Alder said.