Two Duval County Public Schools students have been hit by cars, and a middle schooler was killed during just the first week of the 2025-2026 school year.
“It is tragic that this week that we did have one fatality,” Commander Scott Lundquist with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office traffic unit said Saturday. “But we had, that’s why we put our motor officers out there, our traffic officers out there to try to educate and enforce these school zones, the areas where the buses are going.”
Duval County Public Schools superintendent Dr. Christopher Bernier posted this statement to social media Friday, saying in part:…