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Alabama Woman Killed, Three Injured In Beulah Intersection Crash
April 29, 2023
The Florida Highway Patrol said an Alabama woman was killed and three people were injured Friday night at a Beulah intersection.
The crash happened about 8 p.m. at the intersection of Nine Mile Road and Beulah Road.
FHP said a pickup truck driven by a 36-year old Cantonment man was traveling east on Nine Mile Road and turned left in front of a westbound SUV driven by a 71-year old Seminole, Alabama, woman.
The woman was pronounced deceased at the scene, and her passenger, a 55-year old man also from Seminole, was seriously injured.
The Cantonment man suffered only minor injuries. An 8-year old passenger in his pickup truck was seriously injured when he was ejected from the vehicle. FHP said neither was wearing a seat belt.
The FHP continues to investigate.
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17 Responses to “Alabama Woman Killed, Three Injured In Beulah Intersection Crash”
The intersection of 9th Ave and Creighton Rd was plagued by this same issue. Accidents with injuries and near misses were a daily occurrence. It took writing letters to City, County, and State officials to have an engineer come out and evaluate the situation. They must have realized the danger of allowing vehicles to turn left on a green light as they immediately changed it to a turn-on arrow only.
Today, the intersection has no crashes of that kind. Unfortunately, it is too late to save a life there and I hope changes come soon so others may be saved.
100% driver error.. prayers for everyone involved
These are both State Roads, so there’s not a lot the County can do except ask the state to take another look at it. I live out here and I am often making that same left hand turn that the truck was making when the accident happened. That left hand turn seriously needs to be a red green turn arrow only. If the opposing turn lane has traffic, it’s nearly impossible to see the cars coming up the hill to the intersection.
Praying for all involved. Especially praying for the child that is injured.
Seems like many of the serious accidents at this intersection involve vehicles turning left on 9 mile (both directions) onto Beulah rd where the vehicle making the left turn misjudges the distance of the oncoming traffic. If so, perhaps changing the lights for 9 mile traffic to allow left turns only on an arrow would help reduce these accidents.
tom on April 29th, 2023 8:09 am
You are right. It’s like blaming a GUN for killing someone.
I agree with dp comments that directional markings are so confusing and misleading. Whatever engineers who are designing these markings needs to take another look. I have seen other areas around that are similar and confusing. Thank you for taking note of these designs
misaligned roads don’t cause people to drink and speed .
The county will not do anything!!!! Parents fly up and down Rebel Rd between 9 mile and Mobile highway to pick up their kids from Beulah Middle. Kids are walking home from school too. There are NO SPEED BUMPS to make them slow down!!!! Someone’s going get hit or killed because of this!!
There is NO SUCH THING as a road that is fail-safe as long as humans are driving on them.
Please explain to me how the County or State can stop people from doing stupid stuff. Neither the County nor the State contributed to the crash. The crash was caused by the driver of one of the vehicles involved. Don’t be so ignorant as to blame anyone except those involved in the crash
There is nothing the county or state can do. It is up to the individual driver. I have seen too many people driving too fast, on cell phones, passing on double lines, or texting while driving. My appreciation goes out to our troopers and law officers. I would think the hardest part of their job is pulling a dead child out of an accident or going to a house and telling some parent their child has been killed. Prayers for all involved and with our law officers.
To what’s going on here – Careless drivers are almost always at fault. It is a shame as almost all accidents are preventable. Until drivers are educated and care about what they are doing, at all times, behind the wheel, it won’t matter if there’s a light there or not.
The intersection is very misaligned. The misalignment traveling south to north or vice-versa is very obvious as you approach the intersection, but still very tricky to navigate, especially is you are northbound. The misalignment traveling east to west is less obvious, but more dangerous. If you are heading west and enter the turn left lane, you have the option of turning left after the turn left light arrow extinguishes. However, because this lane is misaligned with the opposing turn left lane (east-bound), you may think the roadway is clear to turn when in fact there are east-bound vehicles hidden from your view until you enter the intersection. Please align the lanes or make it turn left only with a turn left arrow. Additionally, this intersection needs a lot of help to be functional during heavy traffic.
What’s going on is there is no common sense on the road. There is a red light at that intersection. Someone’s irresponsibility caused this wreck. People need to slow down and pay attention and remember they are not the only one on the road.
What can the county or State do to stop all these accidents. I have seen minor accidents to major accidents here since 9 mile has been construction free. What reason is propelling this intersection in becoming this dangerous in Escambia county?
Seen the gentle men at the Boat launch with a child in the f250… praying for these families.