Motor Vehicle AccidentAtmore News

2 hurt in accident
Two Atmore residents were seriously injured in a two-vehicle accident Sunday evening, October 1. According to the Florida Highway Patrol report, Tyler D. Respress, 35, and Ashley Respress, 34, both of Atmore, were transported to Sacred Heart Hospital. The accident occurred at 8 p.m., at State Road 97 and Ficklin Road, Escambia County, Florida. Three people in the other vehicle were injured. Travis J. English, 39, of Pensacola, driving a…
Teen hit by car
An Atmore teen was taken by ambulance to Atmore Community Hospital Monday (July 31) afternoon after he was hit from behind by a car as he walked along a city street. According to Atmore Police Department reports, the 14-year-old male was walking northbound on South Presley Street around 2:30 p.m. when the incident occurred. (Alabama law does not allow for the publishing of a juvenile’s name unless the accident is…
Five hurt in crash
Five people were taken by ambulance to Atmore Community Hospital Wednesday afternoon, June 21, with varying degrees of injury after a two-vehicle collision on Martin Luther King Drive. According to Atmore Police Department reports, the crash occurred around 12:58 p.m., when a 2000 Pontiac Grand Am driven by 24-year-old Mikieldra Houston of Atmore pulled onto MLK from Bragg Street and into the path of a 2001 Buick LeSabre driven by…
Two killed, child hurt in Friday night crash on Jack Springs Road
Two Atmore residents, including the owner of a local barbecue restaurant, were killed in a violent collision that occurred Friday night (April 28) on Jack Springs Road. According to Alabama State Trooper reports, 37-year-old Christopher Henry Lowe and Shalonda Trenee Rudolph, 22, both of Atmore, were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which happened around 9:45 p.m. Trooper reports indicate that a 1991 Chevrolet driven by Lowe and…
Man loses leg in crash – Wife says rescue from isolated Clarke Co. area was ‘a miracle’
A Canoe man, one of Escambia County’s most noted cotton farmers, is recuperating in a Mobile hospital after he apparently lost consciousness and crashed his motorcycle in northwestern Clarke County last Saturday, April 8. Robert Wiley Farrar Sr., 65, lost a leg to the accident but otherwise suffered only minor injuries, said Susan Farrar, the crash victim’s wife of 10 years. “He’s doing pretty good, considering the circumstances,” she said…