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Man Flees Atmore Police, Slams His Car Into A Building
November 12, 2010
An Alabama man that fled from Atmore Police was seriously injured when he slammed his car into a building.
Zachary A. Smith, 20, of Excel, Ala., was listed in serious condition after being airlifted to Baptist Hospital in Pensacola.
According to the Atmore Police Department, an Atmore police officer conducted a traffic stop about 6:20 p.m. Thursday on Smith’s 1994 White Honda Accord after it was observed traveling on Martin Luther King Drive at a high rate of speed. As the officer exited his patrol car at the traffic stop at the intersection of Ashley Street and Martin Luther King Drive, Smith restarted his car and fled westbound on Ashley Street.
According to the Atmore Police Department, the officer lost sight of the vehicle near the intersection of Ashley Street and North Main Street. Officers soon discovered that Smith had traveled across Main Street, through a business parking lot, across Trammel Street and had struck a the former Gray Oil Company building on Ashley Street.
Smith was transported by ambulance to Atmore Community Hospital and then airlifted to Baptist Hospital where he was listed in serious condition Friday.
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9 Responses to “Man Flees Atmore Police, Slams His Car Into A Building”
um…does it say anywhere in this article that taxpayers have to pay the medical expenses??? We are too quick to judge and don’t know the status of others. So what if we do life goes on! It wouldn’t be the first nor last time our tax money gets wasted on things we have no control over.
If the supervisors play their cards right, the will wait until after he is out of the hospital to arrest him. This will force the bad guy to pay all the medical bills. The city will only have pay if they arrested at the scene. The bad guy will still have to pay the city back if the judge is half decent. It’s OK don’t fret.
Thinker,
“airlifted to baptist” =lifeflight!
If you read it states ambulance to atmore hospital then AIRLIFTED to baptist
molino jim,
No life flight involved. He was transported by ambulance, it says.
Guess who gets to pay for the repairs on the building that my father was trying to sell. I have no sympathy for drunk drivers.
let’s see, Baptist Hospital–Escambia County, Florida, oh goody, WE DO
is there a photo of this guy anywhere?
Guess who will get to pay for life flight and the rest of his medical bills.