YOUNGSTOWN — A pedestrian was killed Tuesday afternoon after being struck by a vehicle while walking along U.S. 231 north of Bayou George.
Brandon Baggett, 20, of Panama City, was taken to Bay Medical Sacred Heart, where he died after he was hit by a box truck around 12:30 p.m. Douglas Corbin, 30, of Headland, Ala., was the driver of the truck. He was not injured.
Several Florida Highway Patrol troopers converged on the site of the incident, but they said FHP policy prohibited them from providing any information on the incident outside of a press release. They were interviewing a man standing next to a moving truck, presumably Corbin.
At the scene, troopers closed the outer lane of U.S. 231 in order to mark areas on the pavement significant to their investigation with spray paint.
According to an FHP press release issued later Tuesday, Baggett was walking north in the shoulder along the highway north of South Bear Creek Road when he entered the outside lane and was struck. The impact propelled him onto the shoulder of the highway.
The FHP has assigned a homicide investigator to the case, and Corbin has not been charged with any crime. Alcohol use by Corbin has been ruled out as potential factor in the crash; whether Baggett had used alcohol remains under investigation.