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Overnight crash involving JTA bus leaves one person dead

Jacksonville, FL. — Jacksonville Sheriff's Office have identified the 74-year-old man killed in a crash with bus Thursday night.

When Jacksonville Police responded to the call, they found a 4-door sedan and a JTA bus disabled in the intersection of West Adams and North Jefferson Street.

According to police, Alfonoso Glover of Jacksonville,  was driving the car involved. Glover was found unresponsive and transported to U.F. Health where he later died. The driver of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority bus was also taken to the same hospital, but with non-life threatening injuries.

There were no passengers on the bus, we are told the driver was on the way to the terminal at the end of its shift.

Right now, police are trying to piece together the exact cause of the crash. They say at this point in their investigation they determined the bus was traveling west on West Adams Street and the sedan was southbound on North Jefferson Street. They entered the intersection at the same and collided.

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