Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones issued the following statement.
This morning at 11:30 AM, Lt. Eric Paymon-Administrations Division, was involved in a single vehicle accident traveling west on Hwy 18 near Springridge Rd. His vehicle left the roadway and struck a utility pole. The cause of the accident appears to be weather related and road conditions. Lt. Paymon was extricated from the vehicle and transported to UMMC with serious injuries. Prayers for Lt. Paymon and his recovery efforts.
Kingfish note: Rough day for the Blue, today. Hope he makes a full recovery.
9 comments:
It'll buff out.
Hope he makes a full recovery. Having said that, hinds county deputies absolutely fly everywhere they go. They run that light at spring ridge and 18 all the time. One exactly like the vehicle pictured ran me off the road on Maddox rd passing on a hill.
I assume he was ticketed for driving too fast for conditions, right? That's what would happen to anyone else.
Police, Sheriff Deputies, Constables, and last but definitely not least, MHP Troopers are required by law to follow all of the traffic laws set in place by the Legislature and usually followed by us meager worker types. Now having said that, in reality it's Death Race 2000 out here for law enforcement types.
They need to enforce traffic laws through example.
There is a web site dedicated to police officers being killed in the line of duty. In the instances where they are killed in single vehicle collisions, it's ALWAYS the fault of the vehicle. Like here, it says the vehicle left the roadway. When anyone else has a single vehicle collision, the driver lost control or failed to maintain a safety due to weather conditions, or was distracted while driving.
"Administrations Division." No need for speed.
If a competent person performs an accident reconstruction exercise, it will be noted that the 'administrative deputy' in the county vehicle was traveling at an estimated speed of 74 mph, in the rain.
This is indeed awful. Still, I couldn’t totally stifle my chuckle at “it’ll buff out.”
I hope he makes a full recovery but I've seen him driving around on 18. He flies everywhere he goes and obviously was going WAY too fast for conditions. Paymon is one of Tyree's and upper command staffs buddies so of course they aren't doing what they would do for every other Deputy and having the speed and braking info pulled from the vehicles control unit. Any other wreck with as much damage as that and the command staff at the SO would be getting info on the Deputies speed so they could decide if that Deputy should be allowed to be in a position where driving a department vehicle is necessary. That will not happen this time and I'm sure as soon as he is out of the hospital he will get a brand new tax payer provided vehicle to drive. Accidents happen but sometimes are also avoidable when it comes to speed and weather.
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