Overturned Log Truck Trailer Downs Power Lines On Muscogee Road

January 30, 2020

An single vehicle crash involving a log truck brought down power lines and shut down Muscogee Road Thursday night.

The truck traveled off Muscogee Road near Madrid Road about 6:15 p.m. and struck a power pole. The power pole was snapped and power lines came down in the area.  The truck driver was not injured.

Muscogee Road was closed while Gulf Power worked to make repairs. Gulf Power reported 15 customers on Rittenberry Road lost power.

The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating. The Cantonment and Beulah stations of Escambia Fire Rescue responded.

NorthEscambia.com photos by Kristi Barbour, click to enlarge.

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14 Responses to “Overturned Log Truck Trailer Downs Power Lines On Muscogee Road”

  1. Earl on January 31st, 2020 5:29 pm

    @ Justhereforthedummies ..I am impressed…all that and you had no substance to your obtuse backwoods mentality.
    Perhaps everyone should shut up…so you will feel you got a little attention
    Btw..I am a retired LEO..dealt with ignorance for 40 years…your nothing to remember

  2. Justhereforthedummies on January 31st, 2020 1:09 pm

    U can tell who drive trucks or know somebody who they care about drives trucks. If u arent agreeing w the fact that theze loggers drive way too fast on all these narrow roads around here then u r just ignorant. Also earl u are very ignorant. These log trucks dont just “wanna go faster than someone”. They wanna go faster than everyone and they are very wreckless in their driving habits. They “excessively speed” all over molino and cantonment. U are probably a trucker or someone u care for is thats why u are so ignorantly biased on the situation. So if u are biased just keep your mouth shut! If u arent concerned then u should have nothing to say

  3. John on January 31st, 2020 12:11 pm

    To you morons who keep saying they see log trucks flying: I have yet to see a log truck with wings or the driver flapping his arms. Stop it.

  4. mat on January 31st, 2020 11:48 am

    Steve,
    Just curious…
    How does a bat out hell drive?
    Ha Ha Ha

  5. Earl on January 31st, 2020 10:52 am

    @ Obvious fix…
    “I know I was in the wrong too”
    Say that when you kill a family…ever watch Forest Gump guy…
    Stupid is as Stupid does…….it fits you

  6. Earl on January 31st, 2020 10:49 am

    @ Concerned 95A …
    So you passed 3 logging trucks and 2 dumps trucks..because they was not going as fast as you wanted to go….you sir are a road hazard. You put others in danger.
    Do us a favor and turn your licence in and save a life.

  7. David on January 31st, 2020 10:33 am

    I hope everyone on here understands that the same people gong down ANY road including that road also speed, weave, run off the road, burn their tires out, pass on hills, pass on curves ..everything that is alleged these trucks do is had and is being done by cars,pickups,motorcycles…so see, you do the same thing as what you rant and rave about.
    Log trucks dont corner the market on driving issues…YOU OWN THEM TOO

  8. Obvious fix on January 31st, 2020 9:51 am

    Here we are again….revisiting the same old cause of log truck accidents…SPEED!!!
    When are authoritative figures going to learn to just not allow those trucks on Muscogee Road past the paper mill?!? Are they getting kickbacks from logging companies or the mill to turn a blind eye to the obvious issues?! I tailed a truck on Muscogee the other day. I know I was in the wrong too, but I was curious as to how fast he was going because he passed me and I was running 50mph. It was raining, he had NO LIGHTS ON, and he was running 79.3mph according to GPS. Something has got to be done.

  9. David on January 31st, 2020 9:44 am

    @ Concerned 95A resident…I assume you have a state certified scale you drag down the road and weigh these trucks while they are moving…to make a statement..” they all are over weight”…..man you are good.
    God loves special people too…so dont fret..you will be ok.

  10. Concerned 95A resident on January 31st, 2020 8:03 am

    DOT/FHP would get a ton of tickets for overweight logging and dump trucks if they sat on 95A just south of the 29 and 95A cut off. When I pass 5 logging trucks and 3 dump trucks from two companies on 95A, you know somethings up. The trucks are overweight and want to avoid the auto check point on Hwy 29 south bound lane. 95 A is a two lane road and the large trucks dont do the speed limit.

  11. Reader on January 31st, 2020 7:12 am

    Another log truck incident…… almost as prevalent as the dump trucks

  12. Steve on January 31st, 2020 3:13 am

    Cause they drive like a bat out of hell!

  13. Kat on January 31st, 2020 12:42 am

    Guess that explains why the power went off for a few minutes then came back on…I figure it had to have been someone hitting a pole or something…. and as for the log trucks, not ALL of them fly through here…. I’ve been ahead and behind them on occasions.. neither times have they been flying down the road.. so please, let’s not lump them all into one group because of a few bad ones..

  14. Kimee on January 30th, 2020 9:28 pm

    I have lived in the area for more than 25 years and have seen numerous accidents involving those logging trucks. They always fly on Muscogee. I imagine we will see FHP out there for a little while keeping an eye out for speeders. As soon as they leave, the trucks begin speeding again. I was West-bound on Muscogee several nights ago; it was raining and two logging trucks were coming toward me headed east. They were so far over in my lane that I had to run off the road to avoid a head-on collision.

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