A man was pulled from a vehicle that apparently went off the embankment of a small San Pablo Road bridge on private property Wednesday morning.
The vehicle ended up submerged under the bridge, which spans a narrow tributary of the Intracoastal Waterway, according to WJCT News partnerNews4Jax.
A person on the property who witnessed the crash called 911 just before 8 a.m., St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Chuck Mulligan said.
Rescuers could be seen working to pull the man from the vehicle Wednesday morning, but he did not survive what Mulligan described as a “tragic traffic crash.”
Mulligan said the man has not yet been identified but appeared to be a younger male. The vehicle he was driving was registered locally, Mulligan said, but it’s unclear if he owned the vehicle.
An expanded version of this story is at News4Jax.com.