Page 4 May 11, 2011
The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
U.S. 19 Crash - Continued from page 1
Remembering the past
stated that alcohol was not a factor with Potter or LeBlond, but a blood alcohol level is pend-
ing with Brock and charges are pending.
A semi truck driver, carrying a by-product from Progress Energy and traveling
north, a couple vehicles behind the crash, told ‘The Newscaster’ correspondent Sally Price
that a smaller, southbound pickup truck (Brock’s Ford Ranger) made contact with the front
driver’s side of a northbound full-size pickup truck (Potter’s Chevy C-2500), and the small
pickup truck (Brock’s Ranger) became airborne and bounced-off the top of a small passen-
ger car (LeBlond’s Chevy) that was also traveling north, behind the larger pickup (Potter’s
Chevy), hitting near the windshield and crushing the top front of the car.
Another semi truck driver, who was also carrying by-product from Progress En-
ergy, told Price that the small pickup truck (Brock’s Ranger) landed on the small car (LeB-
lond’s Chevy), then flipped in the air, landing upside-down, facing north in the southbound
lane. He said the man (Brock) in the small pickup truck (Ford Ranger) crawled out of the
upside down truck, but turned around and crawled back in to retrieve something. He (Brock)
was later transported away by ambulance. The driver of the larger pickup was walking
around and left the scene later in another vehicle.
The driver in the small car (LeBlond) left in an ambulance and was transported
to Felburn Park on the Greenways and Trails where a helicopter airlifted him to a hospital
(Shand’s). A second helicopter was seen leaving the area and it is not known if the small
pickup truck driver (Brock) was a passenger.
A lengthy span at the top of the bridge was covered with tools, truck parts and
Port Inglis Island at the mouth of the Withlacoochee River at Yankeetown was the world’s
debris after the crash. Bridge workers watched as the scene was cleared. There was no
largest shipping port of phosphate in 1902. Capt. John Livingston Inglis was responsible
indication that the new bridge now being used had any relevance to the crash.
for the shipping of phosphate to Europe out of this port until WW1 stopped the shipping.
According to a spokesperson with Adkins, the company that took-over the bridge
This picture is made opposite Canook Beach at the end of Hwy 40 where the old mouth of
construction from PBS&J, the new, northbound lane will not be open until early summer
the river originally flowed behind the island into what was called Bungalow Bay but later a
due to some added changes. Debbie Russell and Sally Price contributed to this story.
channel was cut directly west. . There were over 34 buildings on the island including a cus-
Chiefland man charged with retail theft by IPD
toms house, commissary, machine shop, hotel, school and homes. The island contains one
of the largest Indian mounds around here today in an area deemed a most important Indian
industrial civilizations. Evidence of the inhabitants is clearly visible. Around 1875 John
Quentin Lance Levin, 41, Chiefland, was arrested by the Inglis Police Department,
Chambers, Chambers Mill Point saw mill was the largest one on the west coast of Florida,
April 27, charged with retail theft. According to the arrest report, the manager of the Kanga-
giving it a dual name of Chambers Island. From Sally Price archives.
roo Express Store witnessed Levin enter the store, take a pair of Pugs Sunglasses Premium
Gear, remove the price tag, pull up his pants leg, place the glasses in his left boot and walk
Realty
out of the store.
The report stated that, outside the store, Levin admitted to taking the sunglasses
and returned them to the store. He stated he’d been charged with retail theft once previously.
Sally Price, Realtor
The price of the sunglasses was $19.99.
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