PANAMA CITY — Three Panama City residents were hospitalized after overturning in a truck several times at high speeds, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.
An eyewitness who was driving on County 2397, north of Cue Drive, told FHP officers the truck carrying the three “passed them hauling butt,” at about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning before the horrific crash.
Robert Preston Stanfill, 38, was driving the 1996 Ford F150 south on County 2397. In the front cab of the truck with Stanfill were 22-year-old Donald Douglas Williams, in the window seat, and 19-year-old Amber Sirmans, in the middle.
The Ford drove around the eyewitness before he saw it lose control, leave the roadway, plow through a mailbox and careen into a culvert. After striking the culvert, the eyewitness saw the truck overturn several times before coming to a rest on its top, in a ditch.
Each of the three passengers of the vehicle were taken to a local hospital in serious condition, FHP reported. Only Stanfill was wearing a seatbelt.
Stanfill told officers someone or something bumped his elbow before the crash. He has been charged with driving too fast for conditions.