Update -- Commissioner released from hospital

by KEVIN TURNER

kevin.turner@mynassausun.com

County Commissioner Tom Branan was released from Shands Jacksonville over the weekend following a one-car accident Thursday.

Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Bill Leeper said Branan, 63, was northbound on Blackrock Road at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday and veered right while turning through a curve near Green Pine Road.

The car went off the road into a drainage ditch, came out near a concrete culvert and became airborne, coming to rest against a chain-link fence on the other side of the culvert, he said.

Leeper said Branan was wearing his seat belt and alcohol was not a factor in the crash.

“It appears to be medically related,” Leeper said.