NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
April 15, 2006
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

MOTORCYCLIST KILLED IN DESTIN CRASH

     A 69-year old Destin man was killed around 6:17 Friday night in an accident at the intersection of Highway 98 and Main Street in Destin. The man’s identity is being withheld, pending notification of next of kin.

     Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Homicide Investigator Mark Raiche says Steven Brown of 645 James Lee Road in Fort Walton Beach was heading east on Highway 98 in a Ford passenger car. Brown made a left turn onto Main Street , turning into the path of the motorcycle driver, who was traveling west in the left lane of 98. The motorcyclist was wearing a helmet, but was declared dead at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center .

    The investigation is ongoing.

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