A large shed behind a Burlington Road home in Hosford burned Saturday after a car parked under it caught fire. The blaze began shortly after Jackelene Pullam drove home. The car, shown below left, along with a boat, a Gator utility vehicle, a riding lawn mower and some logging equipment was destroyed in the fire. Hosford-Telogia VFD Assistant Chief Laryus Brown, shown below right, is hosing down the scene. The Bristol Fire Department assisted.
A Marianna man was airlifted to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital with critical injuries Monday after his bike collided with a van on CR 167 near Walter Potts Road in Calhoun County. Mark F. Long, 48, was riding a bicycle north on CR 167, just ahead of a van around 5:58 p.m. The driver of the van, Rajesh G. Patel, 55, of Vidalia, GA, pulled out to go around the bicyclist on the left but Long suddenly changed course, moving from the outside of the lane toward the center. The right front of Patel’s 1999 Chrysler van collided with the rear...
The Florida Highway Patrol is seeking help in identifying a man killed in Quincy Monday night when he was hit by a truck. William Larimore, 30, of Carrabelle, was eastbound on US 90 at 10:05 p.m., approaching Ben Bostick Road, when his 2000 Ford F-150 collided with a Hispanic male pedestrian in the inside lane. The impact left the unidentified man in the center of the road. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Larimore pulled off the road after the collision. Neither he nor his 15-year-old passenger were injured. The pedestrian is approximately 5 feet tall, 110 pounds...
BRISTOL – A Blountstown man was transported to a hospital by emergency helicopter after he suffered head injuries when the log truck he was driving overturned. Robert Lambeth was about two miles south of his destination – the pole mill on CR 12 in Bristol – when he ran off the eastbound shoulder of the road just before 9 a.m. Tuesday, according to FHP Trooper David Cox. Lambeth overcorrected when he tried to bring the truck and trailer, which was loaded with logs, back into his lane. “Once he overcorrected, his load shifted and the truck overturned on its...
by Teresa Eubanks, Journal Editor A Liberty County paramedic didn’t make it to work but her co-workers came to her aid after she lost control of her car and hit a tree Tuesday morning in Bristol. Melissa Brown, 42, of Bristol was traveling east on SR 20 on her way to the Hosford EMS Office shortly after 7 a.m. when she apparently fell asleep, according to FHP Trooper David Cox. Brown’s 2003 Chrysler PT Cruiser had just come out of the four-lane when it crossed into the westbound lane of SR 20, hit a tree and overturned at Shoemake...
An encounter with a deer caused a 19-year-old driver from Altha to lose control of her Nissan SUV early Saturday morning on Hwy. 71 near the Gulf County line. FHP Trooper Matt Mattingly said Hailey Payne cut the wheel too hard to dodge a deer that jumped into her path around 2:30 a.m. Saturday near The Junction.OK The small Nissan she was driving rolled over and stopped approximately 30 feet from the road on a wide shoulder, coming to rest on its roof, the trooper said. The driver escaped serious injury, apparently suffering only a bruised knee. She was...
by Teresa Eubanks, Journal Editor A Clarksville man died on the way to the hospital after he was injured in a single-vehicle accident on Newsome Road in Calhoun County Friday night. Forensic Investigator Becki Fejes with the Bay County Medical Examiner’s Office said John Michael Hemmings, 34, was killed by blunt force head trauma due to a motor vehicle crash. Deputies learned of the wreck when they were summoned to the CR 287A home of Hemmings’ fiancé, Regina Whitehead. Calhoun County Deputy Gary McGee arrived to find Hemmings on the ground next to the passenger’s door of a 2000...
A 19-year-old Hosford resident who was not wearing a seatbelt escaped serious injury in a Friday night wreck that totaled a 2004 Ford pickup. Cody Michael Kimball was westbound on SR 20 around 11:21 p.m. when he lost control of the truck and left the road. He managed to drive back toward the center line of 20 but then overcorrected with a hard right turn, which sent the truck into a counterclockwise spin before it overturned and came to rest right-side up, according to FHP Trooper Dennis Revell. The crash happened just east of Dempsy Barron Road. Revell said...
A Dec. 2 collision with a bear resulted in approximately $5,000 in damages to a 1999 Chevrolet Blazer, according to a report from the Florida Highway Patrol. FHP Trooper Ronny Snipes said Lawrence Lorenze Dawson, 50, of Bristol, was traveling south in the southbound lane of CR 12, approaching SR 65, when a medium-sized black bear entered the roadway. The bear was traveling in a westerly direction from the northbound grassy shoulder of CR 12 and then crossed the northbound lane into the southbound lane, into the path of the Dawson’s vehicle. The front of the Blazer struck the...
by Teresa Eubanks, Journal Editor A Blountstown woman and two children emerged uninjured after their vehicle ran off the road in Liberty County and overturned. The driver, Debbie Lockwood Williams, 43, told FHP Trooper Ronny Snipes that she was forced to take evasive action after a small car drove into her lane Nov. 23. Williams was traveling westbound into a curve on SR 12 when an eastbound car crossed the center line of the road around 3:43 p.m. She applied the brakes and steered to the right and then back to the left to avoid a collision. When Williams’...
