One-car collision outside Carrabelle leads to serious injuries
A 24-year-old Panacea man suffered serious injuries Sunday evening when his car struck a tree while he traveled north on U.S. 98 just east of Carrabelle.
According to a report from the Florida Highway Patrol, at about 9:16 p.m. the vehicle was about a half-mile north of Gulf Avenue (County Road 30-A) when the driver, while navigating a right curve, ran the car off the roadway to the right, when it hit hit a tree.
The collision ejected the driver, who was not wearing a seatbelt, and the car then overturned onto its roof, facing north.
FHP was assisted at the scene by units from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, Weems EMS, and Survival Flight helicopter, which transported the man to the Bixler Trauma & Emergency Center at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.