Category: Public Safety

Just after 7:00 pm last night, Florida Highway Patrol officers were called the scene of a single-vehicle collision on Old Kings Road at Utility Drive in Palm Coast after the driver of a Chevrolet S-10 crashed into the roadside sign at the Fairfield Inn and Suites.

Jay Bliss, commissioner to the St Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach District, informed Historic City News local reporters that a 24-Hour emergency command center, manned by members of the United States Coast Guard in Jacksonville, is available to assist boaters throughout the area of St Augustine and St Johns County.

Historic City News was notified by Flagler County Sheriff’s representative Debra Johnson that shots were fired at a Palm Coast man last night; who, the resident says, attempted run him over with the car he used to escape from the scene.

Beginning Monday, the vertical clearance under the SR-312 Bridge in St Augustine over the Matanzas River will be reduced by four feet, the Florida Department of Transportation announced to Historic City News.

After Historic City News published an article detailing the excessive secrecy surrounding an e-mail from Michelle Price to several officers who complained about the St Augustine Beach police chief, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement confirmed late yesterday that those officers’ access to crime information computers has been suspended.

Just after 4:30 yesterday afternoon, a spokesperson for the Florida Highway Patrol Troop G reported to Historic City News in St Augustine that seatbelts saved a 68 year-old woman from serious injury and may have spared her life in a collision that occurred on I-95 in St Johns County.

Deputy Vinnie Russo has developed a composite sketch of the suspect in Saturday evening’s apparent police impersonation; where a female driver and her two small children were pulled over in the area of SR-207 and Hilltop Road, presumably because she was “speeding”.