SOUTHPORT - A Southport man was killed Saturday when his vehicle ran off the road and landed in Fanning Bayou, Florida Highway Patrol officials wrote in a news release.
Lee Eugene Lott, 32, was traveling west at 10:45 p.m. on County Road 2302 when his 1999 Jeep Cherokee entered the grassy shoulder to the right of the road and began to rotate counterclockwise, FHP wrote. The right rear of the vehicle then stuck a guy wire and began to rotate clockwise, the news release stated. The right front of the vehicle struck a utility pole, causing it to become airborne and overturn, landing on its top in Fanning Bayou, officials wrote. The vehicle came to final rest facing east, upside-down in the bayou, officials wrote.
Lott was not wearing a seatbelt, the news release states.
