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Names Released In Fatal Cantonment Crash
October 18, 2009
A Navarre resident was killed in a Saturday afternoon crash in Cantonment, and four people — including a five year old child — were injured.
According to the Highway Patrol, a 1999 Saturn driven by Theresa M. Guy, 26, of Navarre, failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of Kingsfield Road and County Road 97. The Saturn was struck by a 2003 Dodge 2500 pickup driven by Samuel Seeley, 63, of Cantonment. Seely and his passenger, Beverly Seeley, 61, of Cantonment, were transported to West Florida Hospital in critical condition.
Guy’s passenger, Glen D. Ashby (pictured left), 39, of Navarre, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Guy and a second passenger, Nathien Guy, 5, of Navarre, remain in critical condition in Pensacola hospitals.
The force of the impact forced both vehicle to leave the road and overturn, coming to rest on the shoulder of County Road 97.
The accident was reported at 12:30 Saturday afternoon.
The case is still under investigation and charges are pending a traffic homicide investigation, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Pictured above: A Navarre man died in this accident Saturday afternoon in Cantonment. Pictured inset: Glen Ashby, 39, was killed in Saturday’s crash. Family members said he loved to fish. Pictured below: Map shows crash location. Click to enlarge.
Photo above courtesy WEAR.
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18 Responses to “Names Released In Fatal Cantonment Crash”
Theresa is an acquaintance of mine. She is a young single mother who teaches high school aged Autistic children and is working on continuing her education even though she has completed her bachelor’s. She truly enjoys working with these special children no matter the challenge. Last time I spoke with her I just remember her smiling. She and her precious son are in critical condition in separate hospitals fighting for their lives. Please pray for all effected by this tragic accident! May God bless all!
I was completely taken by surprise when I heard about this from a FB friend yesterday. It’s been almost a year since I last saw Glen Ashby, but I’ve known him for close to five years now, and it’s terrible knowing that such a thing happened to someone I know well.
He was a great, fun-loving guy who had a great deal of love for everyone I know down there. I wish his family the best and pray for them. ;.;
I live right up the road from that intersection, and didn’t hear anything when the accident happen. After I heard about it, probably 30-45 minutes after it happen i started checking websites to see what the real story was and northescambia.com was the first website that i seen anything on, i just wanted to say thanks for staying up to date on the news on the north end of the county. I still haven’t seen a more detailed story on any other news site. My prayers go out to the families.
We will miss Glen. We pray for the family.
Glen was truly a great guy and was so full of life.He alwaysbrought laughter into our house and our kids loved him.We will miss hunting and fishing with Glenn. Rest in peace Glenn. You will always be in our hearts,and will be missed more than you’ll ever know. We love you man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My thoughts and prayers go out to both families involved. Unfortunately this is the 2nd time in less than 1 month that I have observed an accident at this crossing. How many more people are going to be injured before the construction work is complete and signs get put up where they can actually be seen?
By the way: Your reporting is GREAT! The Pensacola News Journal must wait to read your stories online before they write about it! Its old news by the time it appears in their paper or online. Keep up the good work!
I have lived within seeing distance of this intersection virtually my entire life. I cannot tell you how many accidents have happened at this location over the years that have injured or killed motorist, but it is a substantial amount. There have been several within the last year alone. It is certainly hard to stand by and witness such a situation that dramatically alters the lives of families when someone is needlessly injured or killed. Just as i am writing this message a car flew by my window exceeding 90 mph and crossed the same intersection that claimed the life of Mr. Ashby. I would hope another life is not needlessly lost at this intersection when such a simple solution could limit the amount of stop failures. Every accident at this intersection is a mirror image of one another. The motorist headed west on kingsfield fails to stop at the intersection and enters Hwy 97 unaware of the stop sign that is obstructed from clear view. If the county cannot afford lighting at the intersection, simple rumble strips on kingsfield rd warning drivers to stop ahead would save future lives much less those that have already perished. It is time for something to be done. Your loved one may be next!
Mike Moore
I drive through this intersection every week day after I drop my child off at Ransom. Major road and utility construction has been going on there since August. Large equipment is frequently left by the workers where visibility is nearly 0 when pulling onto 97 from Kingsfield. It is one of those where you have to keep inching forward until you can finally see in both directions and by that time your hood is in 97. Before anyone blames fingers look at the conditions of an already dangerous intersection. My thoughts and prayers are with both of the families.
There’s a simple solution to the problem of faster drivers tailgating you: move into the right hand lane WHERE ALL SLOWER TRAFFIC IS SUPPOSED TO BE BY LAW and let them pass you instead of blocking both lanes so that you get a traffic jam and a lot of ticked off people.
For some reason, people seem to view stop signs as a suggestion rather than a command. I can’t tell you how many times I have come to a four way stop, stopped and started to make a left hand turn only to realize just in the nick of time that someone else coming into the intersection has decided not to stop. It gets to where you don’t want to move until every other car has gone to make sure you don’t get hit. It’s ridiculous that this is such a huge problem. I mean, geez, how hard is it to understand the word STOP?
Our prayers go out to those who are injured in this accident. Tammy is Glen”s sister in Idaho. Glen was so full of life and will be greatly missed. Thanks for all the wonderful memories and I am so thankful that you could come to the family reunion in Salt Lake this summer. May God be with you.
My 16 year old son and I drove up on this accident just as the first EMT’s arrived. It was horrendous. We turned around and went home, praying for these people. It was a heart-wrenching but valuable ‘teachable moment’ for him. My prayers are with the families affected by this accident.
The vehicles should be dragged and left off of HWY 29 – let people wonder and think about their own driving. Like SED made in his comment after viewing the accident himself, it made him hesitate to drive faster than 45mph. I use Hwy 29 every evening Mon – Fri, when I do the speed limit, there are those that act like you are breaking the law for not going faster. People turn into Mr. Hyde behind the wheel, honking, flash their light, ride up on your tail and then when they do pass you, glare at you with such rage. Story above said one of the vehicles did not stop at the Stop sign, maybe it needs to be changed to a light, stopping traffic in both directions. I wouldn’t mind see a few more Highway Patrol during the rush hour, if it will get people to slow down and watch out for each other.
In most cases, the photographer is William. He is a very good photographer. He gives credit to others when they submit photos. I agree he is doing a wonderful job reporting the area’s news.
How could these people be released already, if they were in critical condition?
The Seeleys are no longer at the hospital, they were released. Please keep all involved in this accident in your prayers.
I came up on this accident well after it happened (approximately 2:20pm) and saw the vehicles involved. LE and fire trucks were still there. I have never seen such badly mangled vehicles. The accident must’ve been horrific, and I’m surprised there weren’t more and worse fatalities/injuries, given the looks of the cars. It left me feeling a little sick and hesitant to go above 45 mph afterwards. I hope the families of the victims are able to deal with this. On my way back, I was behind the wrecker carrying one of the cars that was involved, and it was mangled so bad it didn’t look like a car anymore; there had to have been some pretty high speeds and flipping involved. Very sad.
SED
I live in the Cantonment area and appreciate northescambia.com very much. Since we live between Pensacola and Molino we have no news coverage. Your news coverage and reports are more accurate than the pnj and up to date and your bloggers have more class. I appreciate your hard work to provide the citizens of this county and surrounding area with important and accurate information.
i think yall are awesome in reporting!!! and whomever your photographer is is awesome!! ( needs to teach a few other photographers from various newspapers around here how to take photos)..keeep up the good work