Category: Public Safety

City spokesman Paul Williamson reported to Historic City News this morning that the planned Bridge of Lions 5K Run, set for Saturday, July 21 at 7:30 a.m., will necessitate brief traffic re-routing along St Augustine’s Bayfront, the Bridge of Lions and on streets throughout Davis Shores on the north side of Anastasia Boulevard.

A St Johns County tractor operator, pulling a mower deck along US-1 north of Las Calinas Boulevard, was ejected from his vehicle around 11:50 a.m. today; after he traveled into the roadway, striking a passing vehicle.

Historic City News received a report that a family of five was forced out of their mobile home after an early morning fire rendered the double-wide uninhabitable; according to Lt. Jeremy Robshaw.

On April 24 St Johns County sheriff’s deputies and traffic homicide investigators responded to a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of CR-210 West and St Johns Parkway involving an impaired driver and four teenagers who suffered serious and life threatening injuries.

A Christopher Street resident was awakened shortly before 12:00 a.m. Saturday night to find an injured man lying in the road behind his home, according to a report received by Historic City News in St Augustine this evening.

Tonight, the City of St Augustine Beach will hold a special commission meeting with only one item on the agenda — a discussion of matters related to the future for the controversial St Augustine Beach Police Department.

Historic City News has learned that the body of a 29 year-old man who went into the St Johns River to retrieve a cast net, and did not resurface, has been pulled from just below the surface of the water; about 20-30 feet north of the Shands pier.