Firefighters extinguish a truck that caught fire after an accident on Eighth Street Wednesday afternoon.

by KEVIN TURNER
kevin.turner@mynassausun.com

Two people were killed and four were rushed to Shands Jacksonville after a four-vehicle accident at 1:25 this afternoon on South Eighth Street.

Florida Highway Patrol Spokesman Lt. Bill Leeper said Donald Harrison, 65, drove a 2005 Chevrolet pickup truck the wrong way in southbound Eighth Street and killed Thomas Hooke, 68, of Yulee, when the truck hit his 1994 Mitsubishi pickup truck head-on.

The Chevrolet also hit a 2005 Ford Escape and a 1991 Dodge work truck before it overturned and burst into flames, Leeper said. It took firefighters about five minutes to extinguish the fire, Nassau County Fire Rescue Chief Chuck Cooper said.

James Cole, 48, and Paul George, 36, were in the Dodge and were injured. The names of two people in the Escape were not available at press time.

The wreck left South Eighth Street closed south of Sadler Road.