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Pickup Trucks Collide Nearly Head-on On Highway 164
April 13, 2023
There were no critical injuries in a near head-on crash Thursday afternoon on Highway 164 outside McDavid.
Both vehicles left the roadway when two pickup trucks collided about 4:25 p.m. on Highway 164 about a mile west of Pine Barren Road and the Christian Home community. One vehicle caught fire following the collision, but the driver was able to escape before the truck became engulfed. The other pickup overturned, coming to rest on its roof.
One driver was transported by Escambia County EMS to Sacred Heart Hospital, and the other driver was transported to Jay Hospital. There injuries were not considered life threatening.
The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating how the crash occurred.
Highway 164 has been the scene of several near head-on crashes, many of which have been attributed to the narrow roadway.
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The McDavid Station of Escambia County Fire Rescue, Escambia County EMS and the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office responded.
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21 Responses to “Pickup Trucks Collide Nearly Head-on On Highway 164”
J Fowler needs to get his measuring tape out and measure again.
J Fowler, you have shown your ignorance. CR 164 averages 16’ wide from one end to the other. There places where it is 17’ wide and places where it is less than 15’ wide. Legal width for any vehicle on the road without an overwidth permit is 8.5’, plus safety equipment, as in mirrors. Please tell me how two 8.5’ wide vehicles plus mirrors can safely pass each other on 16’ +/- of roadway? Especially in a 55 mph zone. The math tells you it is not possible. Steven Barry and the rest of the County Commissioners are waiting for a bus load of children to be killed before they decide to widen the road.
“Having done road construction in the past I can tell you that road is as wide as every other county rd”
Hwy 164 has 8-foot lanes.
Having done road construction in the past I can tell you that road is as wide as every other county rd. All county road lanes are a minimum of 11ft wide. Which means that road is a minimum of 22ft total width. The average full size pickup like in this wreck is 7ft wide. You tell me how two vehicles with a total width of 14ft can’t drive down a road with a total width of 22ft without running over each other? Also the average school bus is 7.5 ft wide. Same question. Average 18wheeler is 8.5 ft. Same question. Paved shoulders have made people complacent with crossing lines. Stay between the lines and this doesn’t happen. Driver error is driver error, no matter how much you holler about the road. My prayers are for everyone in this wreck and all the rest. Sincerely. This isn’t a road problem, this is a driver problem.
Jr. is 100% right. Not only residents, but students, parents with students taking them to school, teachers, and students, driving this dangerous road. Also school buses. I think not long ago a ECUA truck and school bus collided mirrors on 164. Definitely time to widen this road and some serious road shoulder work.
This road is dangerous. This is a narrow 2 lane that’s used quite a bit by the residents up in that area. Throw in the log trucks doing their jobs up in those woods and it adds to the problems. There’s barely enough room for wiggling in one lane much less with passing vehicles…yes, I know one isn’t supposed to “wiggle” while driving but one small slip of the steering wheel and you e run off that narrow edge of your road and could be catapulted into the other lane….I reckon the “powers to be” in the County Commissioner’s office doesn’t really care about the North End…prove me wrong.
Only going to get worse with all the development being allowed in the County. The roads are highly impacted as result of this uncontrolled and terribly planned development. People in south and central county already complaining. Road improvement will not happen for 5-10 years after the development ends. If it ever does! So, people in North County, doubt you’ll get any relief until the densely populated areas meet the road demands first – UNLESS YOU ELECT COMMISSIONERS WHO CAN PUT A STOP TO CATERING TO THE MASS DESTRUCTION OF OUR COUNTY!
Hope the injured are ok,maybe after the loaded log trucks speeding down 164 illegally flatten a school bus full of children commercial enforcement will do their job.
Greetings, We see a very large number of motor vehicle crashes in North Escambia and as your fire and life safety specialist with Escambia County Fire Rescue, I am looking for a business to sponsor an Extrication Demonstration for the public in the North end. This was very successful last month as we presented the demonstration at Five Flags Speedway.
This demonstration educates and brings awareness to the seriousness of this problem in the north end of the county, and it also gives our firefighters added training in automobile extrication.
If you would like to sponsor this event, please call or email Ray Melton at (850) 471-6525 or remelton@myescambia.com . Also, anyone needing a smoke alarm can reach out to me as well and we will install them at no charge !
We want you to survive when tragedy strikes !
Yes it to borrow I travel this road everyday I’ve personally had my truck mirror took off on this road . it very unsafe
We need a 6th Commissioner. And an at-large commission chairman. D5 gives too much attention to the southern end. Same with school board.
Until then, Commissioner Barry, there is a world north of Cantonment. Roads need attention.
You can see along the edge of the road how often people go off the edge
Widen the road already!!! This County is a joke when it comes to road maintenance.
Your commissioner wants our votes an does nothing about this dangerous road.if u pass a big full size truck or school bus you better get off the side.if they can pave all these dirt roads they can pave this narrow road.its scarey when u have to drive on it.
yes and 4a need to be wider
Yes, 164 is way to narrow. And the reflectors down the middle make it worse.
You either slam every one in the center or attempt to stay in your lane and get
thrown by the divets along the edge. South Pine Barren is the same way..so many dips and patched holes it throws you. Both roads needs work.
This is awful this road is to narrow you are mirror to mirror no room for any side especially dangerous when it raining at night can’t see any lines I know the county and state employees travel it at some point and probably shrub it off ahhh nothing going happen well it happened so please widing the road and restrip it use them big tax dollars we give u and Florida has plenty set aside for safety improvements like maybe speed bumps on certain roads also
JUST HOW MANY MORE ACCIDENTS IS THERE GOING TO TAKE PLACE BEFORE THE COUNTY SEE THE LIGHT AND WIDEN HWY 164 ? OR WILL IT TAKE SOMEONE GOING KILL I HPOE NOT, GOD FOR-BID THAT SHOULD HAPPEN !!!!!!!
So thankful everyone is okay!
Definitely needs to be something done with how narrow the road is with all the high school kids that travel that road daily. Not only that but people’s family members that travel it daily!!!
WOW!! Can’t imagine how scary this was. Praying for a full recovery for both parties, and glad no one was killed.