Fatal Crash Blocks All Southbound Lanes of US-301 at I-10 in Baldwin on Monday Morning
All southbound lanes of US-301 were blocked at Interstate 10 in Baldwin on Monday morning after a fatal crash, closing the west-side commuter corridor at the start of the Monday drive. Officials had released no information about the victim or the vehicles in the reports the desk read this run.
The Monday drive west of Jacksonville opened with a full closure. All southbound lanes of US-301 were blocked after a fatal crash in Baldwin on Monday morning, Action News Jax reported in a traffic alert published at 7:23 a.m. Eastern, read by the desk this run, and News4JAX carried the same closure in its breaking banner: a deadly crash blocks southbound US 301 at I-10.
US-301 is the corridor that carries southbound traffic from Baldwin and Nassau County down to the I-10 interchange and into Jacksonville's Westside, so a full southbound closure at the interstate is a closure of the route itself, not a lane squeeze - southbound drivers Monday morning faced the block at the interchange with no same-road way through it in the reports read.
What is not known is stated plainly: neither alert the desk read this run released the victim's identity, the number or type of vehicles involved, or a reopening time, and the desk does not fill those gaps. The Florida Highway Patrol is the investigating agency for a fatal crash on this corridor; the desk will update this file when FHP releases its report.
