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Man recalls rushing to help wrong-way driver whose car careened off Buckman Bridge
News4JAX.com ^ | Published: February 24, 2022, 8:27 PM Updated: February 24, 2022, 11:10 PM | Renee Beninate

Posted on 08/22/2022 9:14:06 AM PDT by V_TWIN

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Johnny Glennon says he was heading home to St. Augustine, when suddenly he witnessed a wrong-way driver who crashed their car on the Buckman Bridge — careening into the St. Johns River.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: buckmanbridge; jacksonvillefl; wrongwaydriver

1 posted on 08/22/2022 9:14:06 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Red Badger; SaveFerris; BenLurkin; max americana; moovova

Ping!


2 posted on 08/22/2022 9:16:27 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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3 posted on 08/22/2022 9:18:03 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: V_TWIN

Glennon did this why?


4 posted on 08/22/2022 9:19:01 AM PDT by robowombat (Orth, all y )
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To: V_TWIN

Wrong way driver at 1:00 a.m. No mention of dui charge.


5 posted on 08/22/2022 9:21:19 AM PDT by KevinB (''...and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: robowombat

To try and help?


6 posted on 08/22/2022 9:22:08 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: V_TWIN

Why would I want to help a wrong way interstate cruiser. They are either crazy, stoned or drunk. Let them sink. One of these bastards killed a close high school friend on the by pass around Paris Texas just months after my friend’s graduation.


7 posted on 08/22/2022 9:25:37 AM PDT by robowombat (Orth, all y )
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To: KevinB

I traveled that bridge twice a day for 31 years going to and from work.....I could tell some stories about things I saw happen on it but I never saw a wrong way driver.

Sheesh


8 posted on 08/22/2022 9:27:35 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: robowombat

Perhaps this driver realized the problem and tried to pull off to the side rather than hit someone.


9 posted on 08/22/2022 9:28:47 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: robowombat

I hearcua.

There’s another story out of Miami, another wrong way driver on the highway, driving on a suspended license mind you, killed 5 people and he lived.

SMH


10 posted on 08/22/2022 9:32:09 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: V_TWIN

Billy Joe MacAllister drove off the Buckman Bridge


11 posted on 08/22/2022 9:32:51 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Yo-Yo

How do they know which way we are going?


12 posted on 08/22/2022 9:39:58 AM PDT by pas
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To: proxy_user

No this is the one where the female driver drove wrong way into a suv, jumped out and some how hijacked a FEDEX stopped by the accident and continued wrong way until striking a building a starting a fire. The driver then dove into the St John’s River to escape approaching cops.


13 posted on 08/22/2022 9:50:38 AM PDT by robowombat (Orth, all y )
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To: V_TWIN

That’s pretty long bridge.

How the heck did he do it?.....................


14 posted on 08/22/2022 9:52:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Not sure.

Yeah it’s 3 miles long.

She musta went off right at the south end given the water was only waist deep......luckily for her.


15 posted on 08/22/2022 9:59:06 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: V_TWIN

Everyone going to Journalism school should be required to look up the definition of “careened”. The car may have “plunged” into the river, or “fell” into the river, but I doubt that it “careened”.


16 posted on 08/22/2022 11:01:45 AM PDT by Ed Condon (subliminal messages here in invisible ink)
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To: Ed Condon

Journalism school?.....they still have those?


17 posted on 08/22/2022 11:14:16 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: V_TWIN

Should call them Propaganda Schools.


18 posted on 08/22/2022 11:17:35 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: V_TWIN

I grew up less than 5 miles from there. The river is 3 miles wide at that point. Its not that deep until you get to the middle. So I can definitely see how he could have carried her and waded back to dry land.

How the hell she managed to get into the lanes going the other way I’m not sure. There is a guardrail separating traffic on the Buckman bridge. I thought I remembered it being concrete.


19 posted on 08/22/2022 1:33:28 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

I live less than 5 miles from there now.

On the south (Mandarin side) there are now toll lanes in both directions.

Right before you get to the bridge heading to the westside there is a large median break.

She could have crossed over there and kerplunk.


20 posted on 08/22/2022 1:44:23 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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