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Pickup Driver Crashes Into Three Sheriff’s Office Cruisers In Bratt
November 21, 2025
A driver crashed her pickup truck into three Escambia County Sheriff’s Office vehicles Thursday night in Bratt.
The crash occurred just before 9 p.m. in the 4600 block of West Highway 4, just west of the First Baptist Church of Bratt.
Three marked ECSO patrol vehicles were parked on the shoulder of the road facing west, towards oncoming traffic, when an eastbound female driver left the roadway and struck all three.
Her Chevrolet pickup truck sideswiped the first cruiser, knocking off the side mirror and passenger door handle, before crashing into the other two cruisers. The force of the collision knocked the front passenger tire off one of the cruisers and caused heavy damage.
We are told the ECSO cruisers did not have emergency lights activated at the time, but their headlights were on as the deputies were about to leave a residence after taking a man into custody.
The prisoner was in the first cruiser that was sideswiped at the time of the crash.
The three deputies, the prisoner and the driver of the pickup truck were not injured. The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating and has not released further details.
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9 Responses to “Pickup Driver Crashes Into Three Sheriff’s Office Cruisers In Bratt”
Looks like the patrol cars were at least several feet off the road and on the shoulder. Some are blaming headlights facing the oncoming truck. So what? How is this any different than if they were in the driving lane on the other and opposite side of the truck lane, with headlights facing their same direction (toward the truck) but them in the driving lane instead of off on the shoulder, and facing the truck? Seems like the same thing.
@Well
At least somebody has some sense here. Oh no! They had their headlights on. At night. Judging by the pics. The cars are a good 3-4 ft off the road from the line.
So they were completely off the road, see the white line in the pictures.
And how do any of you drive at night with oncoming traffic shining lights in your eyes.
Rule of thumb slow down in this situation and we all should know not to go to the light !!
@Bama89
It certainly didn’t help the pickup driver see the three large vehicles with reflective decals! LOL
Ypu can’t see anything or judge anything when they have their light fa ing ypu. I almost hit an officer standing in the road because I couldn’t see anything the lights were blinding me!
I would like to see how that accident report gets written. I wonder who will be at fault or if anyone was negligent? If there will be policy changes in the future concerning awareness of safe practices on/near roadways? A lot can be learned from this incident if all parties are honest with themselves and use this as a learning moment. Glad no one was injured in the mishap. Everyone has a job to do, but we can all learn to be safer in doing it. Proper Safety Protocols should always be tweaked no matter of any legal rights in any situation.
Sounds like it was deliberate or maybe on your phone?. Too unbelievable not to be! You can’t see white cruisers with lights facing you? Good Lord. I hope all involved are not injured.
Hope all involved make a speedy recovery. Don’t imagine parking on the side of the road closest to oncoming traffic after dark with headlights shining into oncoming vehicles helped anything.
Patrol car bowling!