Tallahassee woman injured in truck accident at state park
A Tallahassee woman suffered serious injuries Saturday afternoon when the pickup truck she was driving veered off the road and struck a tree inside of T.H. Stone Memorial St. Joseph Peninsula State Park.
According to a news release from the Florida Highway Patrol, the 61-year-old woman was driving north along County Road 30E inside the park at about 4 p.m. when the truck she was driving veered off the pavement onto the west dirt shoulder of the road.
“It began to rotate clockwise, and slid into the wood line. While rotating, the left side of the (truck) struck a large tree,” read the release. “The force of the impact caused (it) to overturn, and it continued to roll before coming to a final rest on its right side, facing southeast.”
The woman was wearing her seatbelt. She suffered critical injuries and was transported to the hospital.
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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.