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Multiple Wrecks During Tuesday’s Rush Hour, Including A 5-Vehicle Crash
September 4, 2019
Three rush hour accidents occurred Tuesday afternoon on North Pensacola Boulevard and on Nine Mile Road.
Five vehicles were involved in a crash at 5:38 p.m. on North Pensacola Boulevard at Ensley Street, near the Ensley fire station (bottom photos).
At 5:20 p.m., a crash with injuries occured on North Palafox Street just south of Nine Mile Road. One vehicle came to rest on its roof in the CVS pharmacy entrance (pictured below).
And at least person was injured in a wreck on Pensacola Boulevard at Diamond Dairy Road (pictured top) The driver of the pictured pickup truck was trapped and extricated by firefighters in about 12 minutes..
Submitted and NorthEscambia.com photos by Kristi Barbour, click to enlarge.
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18 Responses to “Multiple Wrecks During Tuesday’s Rush Hour, Including A 5-Vehicle Crash”
Get off the phone people and pay attention to the road, Life is to precious to waste!!!!!
I had no accidents for over 35 years but that all changed the last decade or so. I’ve had a young man run the stop sign at Maxwell and Davis, T-bone my truck and roll it over. Luckily I landed on my head and for some reason I’m always OK when I land on my head, Ha! Then a young lady rear ends me when I stopped for a ambulance coming out of West Fla. Hospital. Then a woman runs a yield sign on Intendencia and “C” St. She hit me so hard my truck rolled over twice! I was still OK, hard head and using a seat belt. It is dangerous out there these days, good thing their making cars safer ’cause some drivers are just plain idiots.
@ Driving Instructor. Sir, I am with you. Furthermore, I think every driver who has committed a traffic infraction should be locked up and the key thrown away….perhaps have their drivers license revoked permanently. That’ll show them.
Those dang slow drivers, you have to outrun them when you are merging, and they mess up the flow of traffic. And when they drive slow into a dangerous traffic situation, they exponentially make the matter worse because of their speed. Maybe that is why they blow their horns a lot.
Darn…Maybe I should have been a “driving instructor” too.
How many people actually know the speed limit on the road they are traveling on? The three roads I travel most on are filled with speeders without a clue. Community Drive speed limit is 35. I follow the speed limit and the speeders start piling up behind me. When Pine Forest High lets out it even gets worse. I can pull out onto Community with no other vehicle in sight. Many times I see someone pull out several blocks behind me. I am traveling the speed limit. They catch me within a couple blocks and tailgate me to try and get me to speed. I have often said that they think the speed limit is how fast they have to go to get on my rear bumper.
Bellview Road is 25 MPH. It has speedbumps. Some people get airborne hitting the speedbumps so fast.
Denver Avenue is 25MPH. Speeders pass me at unlawful speeds almost daily.
According to my ticket history, they do enforce traffic laws around here. I advise locals to learn how to make a left turn at an intersection and stay in the slow lane if they’re not keeping the pace. I say round up the slow drivers and lock em up and throw away the key.
Yesterday was a Crazy day for wrecks! I witnessed a lady make a left turn from the far right lane, across two lines of cars going north on Alcaniz in front of the Civic Center and T-bone a pickup truck driving South on Alcaniz. I was in the third lane from the right and had just said to my wife, Can you believe that maneuver when she hit the truck. Fortunately no injuries but it ripped the entire front of her car off. Pay attention folks!
I drive for a living. Mostly local, with a few out of state runs. The antics I see are terrifying. People texting while driving in heavy traffic, people texting while driving on the interstate, people tailgating just to name a few. I see so many people running red lights, I can’t count them all. Does anyone remember what a turn signal is for? The problem in Pensacola is there is no traffic law enforcement. County and State show up to write tickets after the wreck. A traffic division would support itself from the tickets and fines written.
There’s a reason I drive an old car: Too many people playing demolition derby.
@AKEuP You got that right!! And stop just thinking of yourself and think of those around you and please, just slow down and drive the actual speed limit.
Put the phones down and stop tailgating. Problem solved.
Born and raised here in Pensacola, I know the back roads to get where I need to get too, and I take them. Driving on nine mile road, Pensacola blvd, Palafox, and 95-A, is like driving on a race track. Not to say it can’t happen on the back roads, but my chances of getting rear ended, or T-Boned is a lot less happening, then going the other routes. Praying for all that are involved, and a huge appreciation for our first responders.
That’s why I like to ride late night with no traffic.
A school bus just had a wreck on Lillian.. Big yellow and someone still couldn’t see it.
I know this won’t help. The people reading northescambia.com are mostly level headed. You’ve got good sense. But I’m in poor health. My sister has to drive me to Pensacola on a regularl basis and it’s terrifying. Slow down. Don’t bully other drivers. I’d prefer to die in a bed. Not in the passenger side of a truck!
Texting, speeding, distractions, little to no situation awareness and carelessness….. by the violators involved.
Rough day for our first responders and ems folks. Slow it down and pay attention folks. Hope all involved are okay.
..a lot of drivers distracted , and don’t seem to care to improveor or change their bad habits…too bad for the rest of us…I call them Kamikazees..and there are plenty of them out there..it is not all opioids or alcohol..
YIKES, Multiple Crashes and the weather was about as clear and clean as you’d ever want.
Folks are in too Big a HURRY these days to get to wherever is important to them.
Well, the write-up of an accident report or a hospital visit or a traffic citation takes a Lot Longer.
For Goodness Sake, SLOW DOWN, Pay Attention, Wear your Seat Belt, Give other folks Room to maneuver, and remember NOTHING is worth rushing to your own accident.
BE NICE to Each Other.
Five wrecks and it’s not even Friday.
I know everyone is in a hurry to get home, but you’ll make it a lot faster if you don’t have to fill out accident reports, wait on a tow for your vehicle, then fill out more paperwork at the ER.
Let’s all concentrate on our driving and the cars around us, so we can all make it home for dinner and time with our families. Drive safe.