4 THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17,2016
Truck slams into Highway Patrol car on US HWY 17
BY WILLIAM F. WEST
The Daily Advance
A 39-year-old Beaufort
County man has been
charged in connection
with a three-vehicle wreck
on U.S. Highway 17 involv
ing a parked N.C. Highway
Patrol vehicle last week.
Anthony Kent, of the
500 block of Pirate Cove
Road, Washington, was
charged with both failure
' • to reduce speed and caus
ing serious injury, accord
ing to an accident report
released by the Highway
Patrol on Wednesday. The
wreck happened just over
the Perquimans County
line.
Kent was driving a 2014
Dodge Ram pickup north
on U.S. 17 when he rear-
ended a 2014 patrol car
that was parked partly in
the left lane of the road
way, its lights flashing, just
north of the Okisko Road
interchange on Aug. 9..
A patrol official said
Trooper P.A. Logsdon had
parked the patrol car part
ly on the roadway after
stopping a 2004 Cadillac
sedan driven by George
Simpson, 55, of the 100
block of Court St., Eden
ton.
According to the report,
both the patrol car and the
Cadillac were partially in
the left northbound lane
when Kent failed to reduce
speed and collided with
the patrol car. The impact
pushed the patrol vehicle
into Simpson’s Cadillac,
the report states.
A patrol official at the
scene of the collision said
Logsdon was unharmed
but that the driver of the
Cadillac had to be trans
ported to Sentara Albe
marle Medical Center.
A Pasquotank-Camden
Emergency Services of
ficial said the driver only
suffered minor injuries.
The patrol didn’t have
a damage estimate for the
patrol car, but said there
was at least $10,000 worth
of damage to the pickup
truck and at least $8,500 in
damages to the Cadillac.
Emergency officials
said the accident was re
ported shortly after 1:35
p.m. Pasquotank Sheriff
Randy Cartwright, sher
iff’s deputies and firefight
ers responded.
WILLIAM F WEST/THE DAILY ADVANCE
A man driving a Dodge Ram pickup truck ran into the back of a stopped Highway
Patrol car on U.S. 17 last week just north of the Perquimans County line.
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Meeting to be held on flounder rules
From Staff Reports
MOREHEAD CITY—The
state’s marine fisheries divi
sion will hold two meetings
this month to explain new
flounder reporting require
ments for pound net fisher
men.
PERQUIMANS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
VOTE NO MORE WINDMILLS
TO
Apex Wind Project
Leo Higgins
Past chairman and former member perquimans commissioners
The first meeting is Aug.
23 at 6 p.m. in the Dare
County Center multipurpose
room on Marshall C. Collins
Drive in Manteo. A second
meeting is Aug. 24 at 6 p.m.
at the
North Carolina Division
of Marine Fisheries’ Central
District Office, 5285Highway
70 West, Morehead City.
Beginning Sept. 1, the
Division of Marine Fisher
ies will require fishermen
who hold pound net permits
and are participating in the
pound net flounder fishery
to report their flounder land
ings to the division daily.
' THE SHORES v
AT LANDS END
HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL MEETING
for
Saturday, August 27, 2016
has been postponed.
Members will be notified of
new meeting date.
The division needs daily
reporting of flounder land
ings to manage the quota
adopted by the Marine Fish
eries Commission through
Supplement A to Amend
ment 1 of the Southern
Flounder Fishery Manage
ment Plan. The supplement,
approved in November
2015, requires a commercial
pound net quota that reduces
pound net flounder landings
by 38 percent from the aver
age 2011 to 2015 landings.
Shares of the pound net
flounder quota will be al
located to six designated
groups. Once the quota al
lotted to a group is met, the
commercial flounder season
will close for that group.
Pound net fishermen will
still be allowed to fish for
and land other species from
the nets.
The commercial flounder
gig season will close when
the quota is met for all six
management groups.
At the meetings, state ma
rine fisheries staff will ex
plain the details of how this
system will work. Staff will
also provide the quotas for
different monitoring groups
and answer questions from
fishermen.
The daily reporting re
quirement does not affect
the requirement for monthly
reporting by seafood deal
ers. The daily landings re
ports will be used to manage
the flounder pound net quo
ta. They will be periodically
crossed-checked with trip
tickets, as with other quota-
managed species.
For more information,
contact Kathy Rawls with
the Division of Marine Fish
eries at 252-808-8074 or
email Kathy. Rawls@ncdenr.
gov.
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