November 28, 2011

Car racing caused an accident on Highway 98 in Santa Rosa County, Florida, on Saturday night, according to Santa Rosa’s Press Gazette.

Two cars collided at the intersection of Highway 98 and Twin Pine Boulevard, reported the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP).

A witness reported that a car heading eastbound on Highway 98 was racing another vehicle at a high rate of speed. The driver of the first car was a Pensacola 21-year-old male, according to the FHP press release.

A Gulf Breeze 73-year-old man was attempting to make a left turn from Highway 98 onto Twin Pine Boulevard when the younger man’s car struck the passenger’s side door.

The FHP press release stated that the impact spun the older man’s car in a counter clockwise direction.

The vehicle’s passenger was taken to Baptist Hospital with critical injuries.

The younger man’s car ran off the roadway, struck a stop sign, a post, a guide wire from a power pole, a property sign, and a pine tree before coming to a stop.

The FHP is trying to find the driver of the second vehicle. It is undamaged and described as a two-door Pontiac GTO, burnt orange or bronze in color.

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