ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) - A man ticketed only hours earlier was
speeding again on the same Orange Beach road, police said, when he
wrecked his vehicle, killing his passenger.
Police said 24-year-old Michael Kendall, of Pensacola, Fla., was
critically injured around 5:50 a.m. Saturday on Canal Road, and
47-year-old John Edward Dolan, of Orange Beach, was killed.
The 2000 Cadillac DeVille ran off the road and hit a concrete
utility pole.
Police said Kendall had been ticketed for speeding around 11:50
p.m. Friday only a few miles east of the crash scene.
Kendall was taken to the University of South Alabama Medical
Center in Mobile in critical condition.
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