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Driver Charged With DUI After Driving Miles On Wrong Side Of Highway 29
January 11, 2010
A Cantonment man was arrested for DUI after driving for several miles through McDavid on the wrong side of Highway 29.
Adolph Warden Pitts, 61, of Neal Road, Cantonment, was arrested by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office late Saturday night and charged with driving under the influence and reckless driving. He was released from the Escambia County Jail Sunday on $750 bond.
Multiple 911 callers reported a white pickup truck traveling north in the southbound lanes of Highway 29 beginning about 11:33 Saturday night. Pitts reportedly continued north in the wrong lane past an Escambia County deputy that was headed south with his blue lights activated. The deputy was able to turn around behind the truck and get Pitts to stop near Cox Road.
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24 Responses to “Driver Charged With DUI After Driving Miles On Wrong Side Of Highway 29”
How in the world did we get from a man drinking and driving to red-necks. Wow! This really is silly.
The dangers we all know. Some of you I am sure have abused drinking and driving. But haven’t got caught……yet. Mr. Pitts, All these people who called about you did the right thing. You in time will be punished. Please stop drinking altogether. And if you are one of those who can handle his booze and drinks and drives, well I hope you are as lucky as Mr. Pitts and kills no one or hurts himself. I don’t understand why humans try to justify drinking. Those that speak out against drinking are usually called, “holley rollers”; “think their better”; “can’t hold their beer”, and much more. Well they are smarter.
I speak from experience, my son is dead because of a drunk driver that could hold his “licker”‘
Funny thing J,
My wife is a Northview graduate and is currently finishing up her Masters in Accountancy while working full time as an accountant. If you want to define that as being a redneck, then I guess it’s not such a derogatory term after all. I’m proud to be married to one. Life’s pretty good because of her being a redneck – if you go by your definition. Now, if only I could be a redneck, man, we would have it made!
To Wayne: Pls don’t talk trash about NE. These people are doing a great job keeping us northenders informed. Alot more than we can say about PNJ. Thanks William for your hard work!!!! The majority of us appreciate your dedication.
Pitts……you almost hit my 17 year old nephew head-on. He had to go into the ditch to miss getting hit. If you had hit him…..I would be introducing myself to you personally. It would not be a “friendly” introduction…..i promise. WISE UP DUDE!!!!!!
Real definition of a “red-neck” : Northview graduate
REGARDING:
“That’s the last time I will post or read anything in your redneck paper. I guess you do not want to hear the TRUTH!”
What’s Wayne all worked up about?
By the way, white people working in cotton fields got sunburned necks, ned necks. The elite considered such work only for black people and used the term to denegrate white working class people.
Interesting that rednecks are now considered racists when the term is racially derogatory in the first place by the one using it., unless we use it on ourselves
David, the redneck
Wayne,
What truth? The guy was driving on the wrong side of the road DUI. People reported him; a Deputy Sheriff caught him and placed him in jail. The defendant placed bail and was released. So far the system has worked.
Now a court will decide his innocence or his guilt; if guilty, he will be sentenced. If he is guilty of DUI, then whether he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs (legal or illegal) is really irrelevant.
Now, if he were under the influence of alcohol, and if he got intoxicated at a bar, then hopefully, the Sheriff’s Department will follow up and make a case…if a case can be made against the bar owner/attendant.
Not bad for a redneck, huh?
Wayne P.
red⋅neck [red-nek]
–noun
1.an uneducated white farm laborer, esp. from the South.
2.a bigot or reactionary, esp. from the rural working class.
–adjective
3.Also, red-necked. narrow, prejudiced, or reactionary: a redneck attitude.
Also, red-neck.
What an objective, open minded, unreactionary post you got there.
That’s the last time I will post or read anything in your redneck paper. I guess you do not want to hear the TRUTH!
Hope he is counting his blessings and thanking God for not hurting anyone.
I wish. Chances are he’s whining about being wrongly persecuted. A drunk is a drunk. If they’re comfortable enough being drunk to get behind the wheel of a vehicle, they’re used to being drunk. What he needs is someone to beat the living daylights out of him – that, more than anything else he’ll face, might make him THINK before he decides to go drinking and driving again.
Bailey Bell. 4 years old. Beautiful little girl. Killed on Hwy. 29 by a drunk driver going south in the northbound lane. A preious baby killed at the intersection of 29 and Detroit Avenue by a drunk driver coming from a bar on 9 Mile Road. Husband and father killed at the intersection of 29 and Mathison Road by a drunk driver coming from the same bar as the one that killed Bailey Bell, going south in the northbound lane. All of them, gone forever. Only by the grace of God did this low-life not kill somebody. Y’all ready to form a lynch party?
Jenn, he was not let go with a $750 fine that was just his bail. The fines are still to come along with much more penalties that a judge will set for him. I am sure a suspended license, interlock system, community service, drivers classes and possibly probation are also what he has to look forward to.
Hope he is counting his blessings and thanking God for not hurting anyone.
This is exactly why I stay out of the “Death Lane” as much as possible, but I see people everyday get in the left lane in Century and drive all the way to 9 Mile Road never getting in the right hand lane no matter what the traffic conditions. Over the years I’ve seen many vehicles on highway 29 going the wrong way, all of them have been in the inside lane thinking they were on a two lane road. Drunks aren’t just limited to driving on the wrong side of the road at night, I’ve seen them do it in the middle of the day.
I remember when the 4 yr old got killed by a wrong-way driver. That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw this story. Very sad that people drink and drive.
Released after paying $750.00 fine! Are you kidding me or what? People get speeding tickets that cost $400 or more. What is wrong with this picture?
It doesn’t matter where he was drinking. He is a grown man he should know better than to drink and drive. Bartenders are not babysitters. They can not possibly pay attention to everyone who comes and goes. Or whether they are driving or not.
A very good friend lost her 4yr old daughter to a drunk driver on Hwy 29 on the wrong side of the road except he was in the northbound lane going southbound. She had both of her children in the vehicle with her. He had just left the bar and run into them head on with out headlights on. All the bars should be in the back woods and let the drunks hit each other.
another reason to stay off the roads late at night if at all possible.
Let the drunks have them since they are going to drive on them anyway.
This makes me so angry because my husband has to go to work in the middle of the night and I don’t want to lose him because some drunkard is driving on the wrong side of Highway 29 or anywhere for that matter. This man obviously has no respect for himself or for anyone else. It’s a shame that he’s already out of jail; and such a low bond too.
MD,
I am fully aware of the Dram Shop Act. The Dram Shop Act states:
A person who sells or furnishes alcoholic
beverages to a person of lawful drinking age
shall not thereby become liable for injury or
damage caused by or resulting from the
intoxication of such person, except that a
person who willfully and unlawfully sells or
furnishes alcoholic beverages to a person who
is not of lawful drinking age or who knowingly
serves a person habitually addicted to the use
of any or all alcoholic beverages may become
liable for injury or damage caused by or
resulting from the intoxication of such minor
or person.
As you can see unless the person is;
A) Known to be underage or ID wasn’t checked
B) Of age but known to be addicted to alcohol
It is difficult to hold the establishment(s) accountable for serving the alcohol.
Wild Bill,
It actually would matter if he was at a bar. If you sell to a person and that person is intoxicated and hurts or kills someone, the bar that sold to him could be liable for letting the intoxicated person keep drinking and drive away. At least, this is what I was told when I worked for a bar owner. Either way, I believe that if the bars would be held accountable for letting people become overly intoxicated and drive away.
I am just thankful that this man didn’t injure anyone on his little midnight escapade.
Would it matter if he got drunk in a bar or at home? DUI is DUI, it really doesn’t matter where he consumed the alcohol, he is an adult, he knows the consequences and now he gets to face said consequences. I am just glad this didn’t end like the last few with people dead and/or in the hospital.
It really makes you wonder if he drove all the way from Neal Road like this. I wonder if anybody has contacted the local bar(s) to see if they saw him in there. Hmmm….
This guy passed me last night! When I saw him coming, I immediately slowed down. I didn’t know what to expect. Thankfully, I was in the right southbound lane, and he was in the left (like you would be on a two-lane road). Thanks for posting the story William. I’m glad to know that a deputy caught him before anyone got hurt.
Hmmm… Sounds like the man must have been drinking alcohol, WOW! I surely hope that he din’t hurt anyone, this is crazy. I swear… Thank goodness the deputy was going down 29 at the time, so this man could be stopped before hurting someone and/or himself…