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Deputy Injured In Rollover Wreck
September 5, 2012
An Escambia County Sheriff’s deputy was injured in a rollover accident Wednesday morning at the New Warrington Road overpass across Mobile Highway.
Deputy Melissa Scruggs, 33, was responding to an armed disturbance call. She was eastbound on New Warrington Road when she struck a guardrail that borders the roadway and traveled into the median. Her 2007 Crown Victoria then struck a bridge concrete barrier and traveled over it. The vehicle came to rest at the bottom of the overpass embankment adjacent to Mobile Highway.
First responders extricated Scruggs from her cruiser. She was transported to a local hospital where she remains in serious condition.
Scruggs has been with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office for two and half years and is assigned to patrol.
No charges were filed in connection with the accident, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Pictured above: An Escambia County Sheriff’s deputy was injured in this accident Wednesday morning at New Warrington Road and Mobile Highway. Photo courtesy WEAR 3 for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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15 Responses to “Deputy Injured In Rollover Wreck”
1. Thank you Deputy Scruggs for all you and the rest of the department do to protect and serve. I wish you a speedy recovery…
A special facebook page has been established so the community can support Deputy Scruggs and her family with our prayers and encouragement through her hospitalization and recovery. The group page name is Praying for Deputy Melissa Scruggs ECSO. The url is https://www.facebook.com/groups/344155019005396/?ref=ts. Thank you.
Margie Hays
Family friend
Prayers for Deputy Scruggs. Thank yo for your service.
…prayers out to you…
My prayers go out to you Melissa, for a speedy and complete recovery!
Praying this deputy will be ok. Please Lord be with her and her family threw this time. Please God help them look to you for strength and faith and look to eachother for support. You are all in my prayers
Godspeed you recovery Deputy, and thank you for your service.
There is just too much for one officer in a car responding to a call to do… That’s why in the old days they had 2 officers per car… one to drive and one to do the other stuff… We need to do better for the people in uniform… We all know we need more of them and need them to be safeas possible… My prayers are with her today…
Our community needs to pull together and support Deputy Melissa Scruggs! Show our support with get well cards, wishes and prayers!
Prayers going up! Lord send healing right now! Thank you all law enforcement officers for doing your job and putting your lives on the line.
Some folks may have issues with the way some deputies conduct themselves. Most of the time, their job is mundane and thankless.
But I sincerely believe most deputies will rush to put themselves in between a citizen and an armed assailant. That’s really when it counts.
Good luck, Deputy Scruggs.
Praying Officer Scruggs is okay.
Awww man I hope she’s okay :/ My heart wrenches reading this. Please be okay!
We don’t think about our officers running to numerous calls to helps us when it’s raining outside until they get in an accident. It’s ashame it takes an accident to get an officer recognized instead of the job they set out to do for us each n every day. Many prayers to her and her family. Good luck Deputy Scruggs.
Prayers are with all involved. Please keep us posted on any updates, her condition and names. i drove by it this AM, horrific accident