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Philips Highway reopens between Emerson, St. Augustine roads after crash involving power pole

Crash on Philips Highway (FL 511)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A crash that involved a JEA power pole on Tuesday morning shut down all lanes of Philips Highway (U.S. 1) between St. Augustine and Emerson roads for about two hours.

The crash was reported around 8:15 a.m.

JEA reported a small outage in the area related to the damaged power pole.

Emergency vehicles could be seen on a Department of Transportation camera blocking all lanes of Philips Highway, but the scene was mostly cleared by 10:15 a.m.