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Distracted Driver Crashes Pickup Through Gas Company Building
October 14, 2025
Two people were seriously injured when a pickup truck plowed all the way through a Blossman Gas building on Michigan Avenue Monday afternoon.
Inside the building, a 59-year-old Cantonment woman was seriously injured, and a 61-year-old woman from Pensacola was critically injured.
The Florida Highway Patrol said the driver of the pickup truck, a 39-year-old Elberta, Alabama, man, was seriously injured in the crash. Troopers said he was distracted by his phone, and looked up to realize he was running off the roadway. The pickup suffered a blowout to the right front wheel when it hit a curb, and the driver failed to maintain control of the vehicle. The pickup traveled across the curb and curb stops of a dentist’s office at the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Montgomery Avenue. The truck traveled across the dentist’s office parking lot, across Montgomery Avenue and collided with the Blossman Gas building.
Troopers said the pickup traveled all the way through and a third of the way out the back side of the building, finally stopping when it hit a pallet of concrete blocks.
There was no gas leak or other Hazmat issues from the crash.
Images courtesy WEAR 3 for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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6 Responses to “Distracted Driver Crashes Pickup Through Gas Company Building”
@Susie A 30+ year resident of Bellview, we thank all involved for the outstanding work in repaving and repairing Michigan over the past 2 years. If you’re not familiar with this area, why make negative e?
Reading the details of his path of travel, I would love to know how far above the speed limit he was traveling to have gone over all of those obstacles before hitting the building.
It is time to enact laws that are more strict and punishments that are more severe. Obviously this was not a malicious intent action but until the penalty, fines and restitutions, create difficult times for these types of distractions, they will continue. The difference of a couple of feet, in this instance, could have been life or death. I’m sure the driver of the truck strongly regrets his actions, after causing this amount of damage with injuries but the same people questioning how this happened are driving and using their phones to take photos.
HANG UP AND DRIVE!
Another using cell phone while driving. Texting while driving is a hazard to you & others.
Praying for these ladies, I talk to them when I need gas or information. God bless them. Praying for their healing.
Michigan Ave has always been a death trap and this County has ignored that for years. Of course, it’s drivers like this one who don’t keep their eyes on the road that contribute to the cause. Sorry but this is a fact.