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Cantonment Driver, Escambia Deputy Collide
March 10, 2010
No one was injured when a Cantonment driver and an Escambia County Sheriff’s Office deputy collided on I-10 this morning.
The Florida Highway Patrol says Rachel Marchant, 25, of Cantonment, was eastbound in the outside lane of I-10 near Highway 29 when she braked as she approached slower moving traffic. That’s when she lost control and her 2007 Chevrolet rotated into the path of an Escambia County Sheriff’s Office cruiser driven by Deputy Lavada Burroughs, 29, that was traveling in the center lane.
Burroughs was transported to Sacred Heart Hospital with minor injuries following the 6:55 a.m. accident. Marchant was not injured.
Marchant was charged with failure to use due care, according to the FHP.
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17 Responses to “Cantonment Driver, Escambia Deputy Collide”
I see both sides to this conversation about “finding things to charge a person with” I also see officers slacking and abusing their privlidges all the time. every job will have slackers and dead weight. when you work in the public eye you should expect to be viewed under a microscope. I spent over 20 years serving the public and doing the things law enforcement won’t even do, and I have never been thanked. I am not asking for that now, my point here is thank the officers who do good and let them know you appreciate it. my experience has taught me that complaining about the ones who do not do their jobs does not amount to anything any way. I appreciate the efforts of the sherriff but there is still some “clicks” in the ECSO that need to be split up for the sake of the public! I am not interested in speaking to anyone but you (Sherriff) as I have spoke to the Sgt’s, and Lt’s about issues in the past and asked for identity protection as to not be identified about complaining about an officer and guess what, the Lt called in the officer and without saying my name provided enough information about my complaint as to identify me, and then guess what, I had to suffer the rath, leson here is, so much for complaining and using the chain of command, after each level the effects were worse!
Glad no one was hurt…
For ‘Hounds tooth,’
Please contact my office with this information (you may do it anonymously), re; the 105 mph trip to the ECSO jail, the officers name, incident, etc..
It will be a simple matter of using the time traveled and mileage to determine if your allegation has substance.
For in any transport situation (for officer safety and legal reasons) the officer calls in time and mileage.
As always, thank you for your continued interest in the management and oversight of the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.
David Morgan, Sheriff
Escambia County, FL
436-9512
i have 2children working in law enforcement all these is not bad let the officers do their jobs…hope that they will be there when you call with a complaint.
I agree, get a scanner and listen to the calls.
Domestic Violence commited by ECSO Deputy…….
Child Molestation commited by SRCSO Lieutenant……
Grand Theft, commited by ECSO employee…..
and the list could go on and on.
Here is a thought LEOs, in addition to upholding the laws, how about remembering that you are not above the law and must obey the same laws you enforce, including speeding.
Here’s an idea for those that know everything: go get a scanner and just listen to the calls that we are responding to every hour of the day. Burglary, cuttings, shootings, domestic disturbances, retail thefts, prowlers, criminal mischief, sexual battery, narcotics, …the list goes on. Surely you guys must read the news. Don’t be so naive; we respond to this all day long as a JOB…so you can go about your happy little day. Every LEO you see fly by you isn’t going to a Denny’s or the donut shop. Give me a break. If I fly by you, I’m going to a call that sounded like, “Hey…the complainant probably would want me to step it up because something’s going down.” If you want me to take my time getting to your issue…by all means, please tell your law makers and i’ll be glad to oblige. Until you are ready to make that commitment, let us do our job, within the limits of the law, and serve you all the best way we know how. We make judgment calls all day long. Some are good, some could have been improved. We are human just like you.
These men and women put their lives on the line every day for OUR safety (without a lot of pay). They derserve our respect and thanks NOT critical comments!!
I don’t know if I am angry or amused at the comments here…. everyone has the perfect resolution and explanation on how / why the LEOs are horrible greedy selfish people. I guarantee the first time something happens to you or your loved ones, you will be right here complaining about the “slow response time” or some other ridiculous notion.
Crawl out from behind your computer screens and request a ride along with a deputy or PPD officer. Or put at least a modicum of thought into what you are posting before you post it.
Well that was a nice comment from a supposed “officer” of the law….condescending as usual.
I sit here a I read these comments and I have to say you as citizens never cease to amaze me, you all act as if you all know everything about law enforcement. Let me enlighten you all a little bit on how we do things in Law Enforcement, officers are NOT required to active his or her emergency equipment when en route to a high priority calls, they are required to use due care and before you start to follow one at there speed you better know that they are not going to a call or you risk being taken to jail for careless driving (and or) inferring with an officer in the course of his or her duties.
Remember if you were the one calling us due to some event you would want us there fast to help you, but no body wants a cop until they need us, then they want us there fast to solve there problem.
Now with that being said Yes their are officers that speed, I don’t disagree with that but make sure as a citizen you have all the fact before you go and blog about what law enforcement officers are doing, you require that we have all the facts therefore you should have all the facts before you pass judgment on all of us.
Officer101
Some times a responding officer does not want the “bad guy” to know he’s on the way. Worse than seeing them stop for a meal break is seeing the officer get his/her meal and have to respond to a call while their meal gets cold.. All those who fuss about cops should call for help and have to fight a burglar or a rapist while the cop sits at a traffic light and then fuss. And NO I’m not a cop—just know that most people would not put up with they have to put up with
Also, I drove past this accident this morning, the woman hit the REAR of the cruiser, and both ends of her car were damaged, from what I could see this was a very scary accident for all involved, and with morning traffic its a miracle that no one else was hit.
While I agree that seeing Deputies go flying to the local Dennys, is a little disheartening and I know all the time this isn’t the case. But have you thought what happens when they get a call canceled? Most officers ESP if they’re running lights are smart enough to pull down a side road out of the public eye before shutting their lights down, so they don’t make an ass out of themselves, but a lot don’t think that far either.
Personally, as long as they stick to their training, I have no problem with the officers speeding around, do you honestly think every call they’re authorized to “hurry up a little bit” to get to, their allowed to run lights to? No not at all.
Not only that, but these guys, work very long shifts, and are chasing calls all day, so I don’t mind if they try to get to Dennys and get out on their mealbreak before another 10 runs pop up on their board.
I remember not too long ago that a friend of mine was picked up from their house for an “incident”. I was called by his wife to go bail him out. This took place at about 9:30 to 10:00 at night. I met the ECSO at their house and follow the deputy to the jail house. During that drive down Hwy 29 the officer drove in excess of 105 MPH until reaching the Ensley area. No lights or sirens. It was scary. I did try to keep up for a little while until I got to thinking about a deer jumping in front of my car. Upon arriving at the jail house the officer then told me that he could arrest ME for driving at speeds in excess of 100 MPH. Unfreaking believable. Although there was a complaint filed about this “incident” it was dis missed.
Isn’t she suppose to brake for the slower moving traffic? And if she was East bound on I-10 and the officer was merging from the hwy 29 ramp, Isn’t it the officers responsibility to yeild the right-of-way to the I-10 traffic? I understand that she lost control of her vehicle when braking for the slower traffic, but the officer was the one not using care if it was the officers responsibility to yeild the right-of-way to the I-10 traffic in a controlled manner that would have allowed her to avoid the skidding vehicle…
I totally agree with that fly on the wall. I’ve seen it many times myself and think that they could hurt someone just the same as the rest of us. If they hit you , you more than likely will be the one charged in the accident. I appreciate what they do for us but at the same time I get frustrated seeing them speeding to just see them pull in to a local restaurant or parking lot to eat or talk.
Oh make sure you give a ticket….think up anything, just do not give the Sheriff’s Officer a ticket. For years I have seen the Sheriff’s Cruisers fly down the roads, taking advantage of their position to break the law of speeding, running stop signs and red lights, never having their lights on much less the sirene. It does no good to complain,we are told they are always on a call. I have seen where they could cause many deaths with their failure to use due care.