Driver sentenced for 2023 fatal cycling accident

Heather Ainsley ECB Publishing, Inc. On Friday, September 22, 2023, Florida Highway Patrol responded to an early morning call involving a traffic collision that took place on Wacissa Springs Road. A pickup truck that had been traveling south-bound struck a bicyclist on the roadway. The cyclist, 25-year-old Jake Boykin, was flown to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital with life-threatening injuries, and later died as a result. Boykin was a doctoral student attending Florida State University and w