Jacksonville man recovering after being hit head-on in wrong-way crash near Clay High School

Only Action News Jax is hearing from Scott Hakes, the Jacksonville man hit head-on in what the Florida Highway Patrol has described as a wrong-way crash near Clay High School on Wednesday morning.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office shut down all lanes of SR-16 for hours after the crash happened at around 6:50 a.m., as parents and students were driving toward the high school in Green Cove Springs.

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The crash report from FHP said an 18-year-old driver had been driving in the wrong lane, hit the back of a pickup truck, and then hit another pickup truck head-on.

Scott Hakes spoke on the phone with Action News Jax from his hospital bed and said he had no time to react before the car hit him…

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