JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – More than a dozen Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office cruisers surrounded a truck on Interstate 95 on Monday afternoon following a chase.
Both directions of I-95 were shut down at Golfair Boulevard after the truck crashed because it was spun out by JSO. The road reopened hours later.
Officers had the truck surrounded around 1 p.m. and some were in positions of concealment behind cruisers with long guns out.
According to multiple sources, a suspect was taken into custody following the chase that started on the Northside.
News4JAX is still trying to learn more about what happened, but JSO has not released any information through official sources about why they were being chased.
A reader who was at the scene shortly after the truck crashed into the concrete median sent News4JAX a video that showed the truck smoking following the crash.
News4JAX spoke to several witnesses and one man on his way back from the airport described what he saw in his rearview mirror before the crash.
“They’re moving all around the roads. I’m trying to figure out which way to get out of their, you know, their pathway up on this white truck, kind of swerving in and you know, back and forth from lane to lane, but the police behind him. So then I started thinking, ‘oh, man, I gotta get out of the way of all this. I don’t know what’s gonna happen,’” he said.
He said next, a JSO cruiser hit the rear corner of the truck and sent it on to its side and then upside down.
The highway shutdown backed up traffic for miles on the interstate.
As of 1:15, traffic was backed up on I-95 northbound as far south as W Beaver Street.
Northbound traffic resumed around 1:30 p.m. and one southbound lane was opened just after 2 p.m.