NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
May 31, 2009
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

DESTIN PEDESTRIAN HIT BY CAR IDENTIFIED

      The person struck by a van around 10:15 Saturday night (May 30th) in Destin has been identified as Britni Marie Recinella, a 23-year old resident of Gulf Shore Drive in Destin..

     Initial reports indicated the pedestrian struck on Highway 98 in front of Big Kahuna's Water Park was a child. Recinella remains in critical condition at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola.

     The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is investigating the cause of the accident.

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