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Mother goes to jail for DUI; son goes to hospital

Posted 4/25/24

FLEMING ISLAND – More than 15 pieces of Kelly Nicole Rockwood’s Jeep still are at the corner of County Road 220 and Hard Road three days after she collided with a concrete light pole on April 23. …

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Mother goes to jail for DUI; son goes to hospital


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FLEMING ISLAND – More than 15 pieces of Kelly Nicole Rockwood’s Jeep still are at the corner of County Road 220 and Hard Road three days after she collided with a concrete light pole on April 23.

But the 27-year-old mother from Green Cove Springs was still in jail after being accused of a litany of charges, including driving under the influence with her son in the front seat who wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.

According to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, Rockwood was seen driving westbound on C.R. 200 “at a high rate of speed” by a CCSO deputy. Rockwood apparently tried to make a left turn onto Hard Road, went through the median, struck the curb and wound up in the wood line. Deputies found a boy “in distress” in the front seat “with red marks on the child’s neck, right leg and both arms.”

CCSO said Rockwood was distracted by a puppy in her lap. She failed her field sobriety test, although her blood alcohol test was zero. However, deputies found a glass pipe and Narcan in her car. That’s a substance that’s used to offset an opioid overdose. According to the arrest report, she told deputies her urine would test positive for amphetamine.

The report also stated from the time of the accident until she was in jail, she didn’t ask about the condition of her son for 2 hours, 32 minutes. The son was treated at Wolfson’s Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville, where he was conscious and alert.

Rockwood was charged with DUI with injury, three counts of DUI with property damage, driving with a revoked license, driving without insurance, failing to drive in a single lane and, child neglect, two counts of resisting law enforcement and not having a child properly restrained.

Her bond is $39,514.