Two pedestrians were injured Sunday morning when a drunk driver hit them, according to a news release from the Florida Highway Patrol.
FHP officials reported that Richard Allen Johns, 29, of Panama City Beach was traveling west on the eastbound lane of Panama City Beach Parkway near Hills Road, the news release states. A second vehicle was involved in an earlier crash and was sitting across the eastbound lanes facing south. A wrecker was attempting to remove the second vehicle, a Honda Accord, from the roadway and the pedestrians, Ronald Crowson, 49, and Royce Kershaw III, 29, were standing in the inside lane of Panama City Beach parkway, next to the Honda Accord when Johns’ vehicle collided with the left rear of the Accord, which was connected to the wrecker.
The front of Johns’ vehicle then collided with Crowson and Kershaw. Johns’ vehicle came to rest in the paved median facing west. The Honda Accord came to rest just west of collision facing south. Crowson and Kershaw came to rest in the inside lane of Panama City Beach Parkway facing east. The wrecker came to rest in the outside of Panama City Beach Parkway, officials said.
The pedestrians were taken to Bay Medical Center for treatment. Johns was charged with driving on the wrong side of a roadway, DUI with serious bodily injury, DUI with property damage and DUI with personal injury, officials said.