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Motorcyclist Killed In Highway 98 Wreck; Cantonment Man Causes Second Crash At Same Location
November 21, 2019
An Escambia County crash claimed the life of a 41-year old motorcyclist Wednesday night.
Shannon Thorp was traveling west on her Honda motorcycle on Highway 98 approaching Fairfield drive when she failed to observe oncoming traffic and turned into the path of a Toyota Scion driven by 55-year old Mary Gibson of Pensacola.
Following the 6:41 p.m. crash, Thorp was transported to Sacred Heart Hospital where she later died from her injuries. Gibson was not injured, but a 22-year old passenger in her vehicle was taken to Sacred Heart with minor injuries.
No charges were filed against Gibson.
While troopers were investigating the first crash, a Cantonment man failed to slow and hit two other vehicles stopped. The FHP said 33-year old Andrew Kauffman’s Nissan Altima crashed into an Isuzu pickup truck and a Toyota Corolla that stopped due to the motorcycle wreck. The driver of the pickup, 60-year old Hobey Brown, was transported to Sacred Heart Hospital with minor injuries.
Kauffman was cited for careless driving.
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11 Responses to “Motorcyclist Killed In Highway 98 Wreck; Cantonment Man Causes Second Crash At Same Location”
This was my mom in this ”accident”. I wish things were different. I miss her everyday. -Chloe Thorp her daughter
Every accident isn’t the result of people on cell phones. Believe it or not, people actually had car accidents long before cell phones came along.
God was there with me and my family.Kept us safe. And I thank him everyday we weren’t hurt worse then could of been when we were hit coming home from grocery store.You never know when something’s gonna happen to you or someone you love.Prsyers ho out to those we’ve lost and much love to people who who’ve reached out to me. Thank you.
@citizen, sure, write those tickets and take away those licenses! That will surely add to the number of unlicensed drivers with no insurance already running the streets around here. GREAT solution…………..
That is a very bad road for accidents been living near that area for years and most of the accidents happen on the east bound lanes of 98 in that intersection people just need to start paying attention to what there doing period stay of cell phones while driving and pay attention
As a researcher for the towing and recovery industry, I have archived as many as 325 tow operators killed working incidents and accidents on highway shoulders; the first one in my data is 1934. Through the years, struck by incidents have become more and more frequent, especially with the onset of the cellphone. Motorists must put away their cellphone and practice the art of focused driving in all hopes that you won’t run into a tow operator who are simply there to help a perfect stranger. And for tow operators and first responders reading these comments, work away from the white-line side of traffic. If you’ve been hit or nearly hit, most likely, you were too close to active traffic lanes. Slow Down Move Over laws aren’t working. Save your own life by staying off the white-line side of traffic.
@ Citizen…..
It will hard “morally” to write motorist citations for being on CP while driving when 90% of the L.E.O. I see in cruisers, have one planted to their heads.
The law says to move over for all emergency vehicles including law enforcement, fire trucks, ambulances and tow trucks. It also says if you can’t move over then you have to slow down to 20 mph below the posted speed limit. As the girlfriend of a tow truck driver I urge everyone to pay attention. Law enforcement, firefighters, EMTs and tow truck drivers risk their lives everytime they have to exit their vehicles. My boyfriend has almost been hit several times trying to load and unload vehicles because of careless drivers. Emergency responders have families to go home to so respect the rules of the road or get off the road. Rest in Peace Shannon.
Put down your weapons of mass distraction while driving!!!
This won’t stop and will only get worse until police actually crack down on “distracted driving” and start ticketing people and revoking licenses.
This is crazy I just moved from a big city. I never heard of so many accidents happening while first responders are on scene. These secondary accidents should carry a mandatory driver suspension or revocation. There has been 4 accidents including a fatality of a first responder.
This is the 2nd double accident in less than 2 weeks. We lost a good man and firefighter at the scene of an accident out in Beulah the same way. He was responding to the scene of the 1st accident and somebody, not paying attention to the road, hit and killed him. People, pay attention for God’s sake! How somebody could miss all of those emergency lights in the dark is beyond me.
I am sorry for all of the victims