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FHP: Log Truck Ran Red Light Before Crashing Into Cantonment Building
October 14, 2025
A tractor trailer hauling logs ran a red light before crashing into a building in Cantonment Tuesday morning, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a report released Tuesday afternoon.
The truck hit the Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway office at 106 South Highway 29 (which is across the railroad tracks that cross Highway 29, next door to the World Gym). The semi came to rest inside the building.
FHP said a northbound car (pictured below), driven by a 36-year-old Pensacola man, had a green left turn arrow when an unknown sedan ran the red light, heading southbound, in front of the car. As the car’s driver continued to turn, the southbound tractor-trailer ran a steady red traffic signal, according to troopers. The truck driver, a 30-year-old Marianna man, veered but clipped the car that was turning through the intersection, ripping the vehicle’s bumper cover off. The car’s driver said he was “lucky to be alive.”
The log truck continued to travel to the left while skidding, traveled off the roadway, over a ditch and through an unpaved parking area between the roadway and the railroad tracks. The truck then traveled across the tracks and collided with the building. The truck came to a final stop with the front portion stuck in the building’s break room and the loaded trailer across the railroad tracks.
For a photo gallery, click here.
The building was unoccupied at the time of the 7:30 a.m. crash. The log truck driver was able to get out of the truck on his own and was transported with serious injuries by Escambia County EMS to a local hospital.
NorthEscambia.com photos by Kristi Barbour, click to enlarge. NorthEscambai.com graphic (at bottom), click to enlarge.
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16 Responses to “FHP: Log Truck Ran Red Light Before Crashing Into Cantonment Building”
The speed limit is 40 mph through Cantonment. Most of the Generation Y and Z does not obey the traffic rules on the highways. They need to install both red light cameras and license plate readers on Highway 29 from Cantonment to Brent Lane. A lot of people know the cameras are not at those intersections and will run the red lights.
What we are seeing is a result of bad drivers being allowed to stay on the roads with no consequences for their bad driving. Everyone is quick to state it’s the roads or the intersection. It’s a lack of repurcussion. State Troopers are at accidents, deputies sit under trees talking to each other. Just maybe instead of buying flashy trailers with flashy lights. Put more squads on the roads for traffic infractions. Maybe then traffic fatalities will slow down.
Traffic lights are staggered at this intersection due to only route for over-height vehicles entering the state from the West.
Log trucks, dump trucks, garbage trucks and some school busses….. We’ve all seen how aggressive and offensive the operators choose at times to use bad judgement
Surprised one of these log trucks haven’t killed someone recently. A couple weeks ago I had one pass me on a 2 lane road, solid double line, in the rain, and I was right at the speed limit. Wish I could have got his tag number.
@Cb, I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed that!
The north and south bound lights need to be swapped to opposite sides of the road like the east and west lights anyways. Whoever did that is an idiot.
Lets go back in time when the paper mill decided to go in. Should have put a bypass bridge over tracks and over Muskogee bridge. But yet,Pine Forest goes undone to.
Too many accidents on HWY 29. With all of the new construction expected in the upcoming years it’s going to get worse. HFP needs to commit more surveillance on HWY 29.
Sounds like it’s not a red light problem at all . That driver simply wasn’t paying attention to what HE was doing. He simply just followed the person in front of him whom I can only assume knew they were running a red light . People really need to start paying attention to what they are doing and not just simply following what’s in front of them.
So happy the traffic signal prevented an accident there!!
You can not park there . Railroad company employees only .
Can we please stop with the ‘trucks going into buildings’ thing? Becoming a trend of sorts.
That is so scary! Where the back of the log truck is, that’s where I parked to pick up my husband from work in ‘08. At that time he would have gone through several cars before hitting the building.
A red light would have prevented that oh wait there is one there
I think highway 29 is cursed. LOL.