Pickup Truck Crashes Into Power Pole And Burns On Highway 95A (Photo Gallery)

July 10, 2022

A pickup crashed into a utility pole and burned Saturday afternoon near Molino.

The driver lost control of a pickup truck pulling an empty cattle trailer about 4:10 p.m. on Highway 95A near Highway 196. The pickup truck burned, setting fire to two utility pole supporting three large Florida Power & Light transformers.

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There were no serious injuries reported at the time of the crash, which closed Highway 95A in both directions. The Molino Station of Escambia Fire Rescue responded and extinguished the fire.

As FPL worked to make repairs, their online outage map did not indicate that anyone lost power. However, multiple residents in the area told NorthEscambia.com that they were without power.

The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating.

NorthEscambia.com photos by Kristi Barbour, and reader submitted (inset), click to enlarge.

Comments

5 Responses to “Pickup Truck Crashes Into Power Pole And Burns On Highway 95A (Photo Gallery)”

  1. Molino resident on July 10th, 2022 12:32 pm

    Lost power but not for super long but it was around this time..

  2. Jennifer on July 10th, 2022 9:42 am

    We lost power in Molino yesterday at around 4:30 and it was not showing on the outage map but when I logged into my account to report an outage it showed 958 people out of power.

  3. Interesting on July 10th, 2022 6:49 am

    Interesting that the map on FPL did not indicate the outages…

  4. Nikki Faktor on July 9th, 2022 9:00 pm

    Hope the driver was okay and thank goodness the trailer was empty.

  5. concerned on July 9th, 2022 8:45 pm

    looks like a half ton truck pulling a huge trailer I might be wrong maybe it is a 3/ 4 ton truck either way glad no one got hurt.

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