Monday morning December 31, around 11 a.m. Gene Edwards was driving his Buick Century toward town on Newburg Road at 27th Street when the car left the road, hit a culvert in a ditch and flipped upside down. Edwards, who was wearing his seatbelt, received a cut across his forehead, but otherwise appeared to be in good condition. He was transported from the scene by ambulance to Lakeland Community Hospital ER.