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FHP: Woman Runs Red Light, Crashes Into Deputy At Highway 29 And Highway 97
December 26, 2025
There were no serious injuries when a driver ran a red light at Highway 29 and Highway 97 on Christmas Day and crashed into an Escambia County Sheriff’s Office deputy’s cruiser.
Just after noon, a 65-year old Atmore woman who was traveling south on Highway 29 failed to stop for a red light and collided with a deputy, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The collision caused the deputy’s cruiser to make minor contact with a third vehicle, a van that was in the turn lane from Highway 97 to northbound Highway 29.
The 65-year-old woman sustained minor injuries, while her 47-year-old female passenger, also from Atmore, was not injured. The deputy, a 30-year-old Molino woman, and the van driver, a 65-year old Molino man, were not injured.
Escambia County EMS, Squad 18 from the Molino Station of Escambia County Fire Rescue and additional units from the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office responded.
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12 Responses to “FHP: Woman Runs Red Light, Crashes Into Deputy At Highway 29 And Highway 97”
The best response though it got me laughing quite hard at the pure reality of how purely ridiculous the way folks drive in this area having lived on Moline Rd not a mile from 29, this response is so true. When I first read it I busted out laughing being the writer is correct. But then I thought they need to build an urgent care facility right there but it better be tucked up in the woods a good ways back, not on Hwy 29 close to the light and intersection!!!! Someone for sure would end up driving right in to it making it a drive-through Urgent Care
Cb what would you suggest for all the other ages that run red lights, speed or get distracted?
RE: FR. I have never heard of speed bumps before an intersection, but that is an idea. It wouldn’t have to be a very big bump, but enough to grab attention.
That intersection is very poorly engineered. It was fine when US-29 was routed along the 4-lane and off the old road many moons ago, but the volume of traffic passing through now is too large for the severe angle at which FL-97 southbound approaches it. I have thought for years that the state needs to purchase right of way to the south of Tom Thumb and realign FL-97 onto that new right of way so that Crabtree meets FL-97 to the north of the new US-29 intersection and FL-97 meets US-29 at a 90 degree angle. That would remove two major conflict points from the chaos. This, of course, will not eliminate accidents. Nothing can do that, but it would make the intersection much safer than it is today.
Maybe they should do like in Mexico, put speed bumps before the light. Then they would have to slow down and pay attention. Too many accidents at this one intersection.
People have little concept of math and statics. There are 2 lights in Molino now, and one intersection is 10x busier than the other. The busier intersection has more accidents. Wow!!! I thank its them thar lights.
As many accidents that happen there it seems to me that it would be a good place for an urgent care or emergency room
Traffic lights help to reduce confusion on when to go or when to stop.
For those who do not pay attention, (or are impaired by drugs, distracted by phones etc) they will eventually crash.
My sympathy to the innocent around them.
I say for anyone 60 years of age and older they need to go through driving courses again and have eyes checked, if they fail take the license and dont let them have it back
Someone would drive off the overpass and have a wreck. You can’t out engineer bad driving.
o·ver·pass, noun, /ˈōvərˌpas/ A bridge by which a road passes over another.
We need ANOTHER traffic light for that traffic light. Then, if someone runs the 1st light, they’ll definitely stop for the 2nd light*
* sarcasm for those people who think that traffic lights stop accidents.