Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• Latest Pedestrian v. Auto Accident Statistics

  Ed Normand | January 30, 2009 2:25 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued the latest statistics on accidents involving pedestrians and motor vehicles in the United States. The report details the number...

• Car Lodged Under Semitrailer

  Eddie Farah | March 29, 2008 1:06 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Traffic on Interstate 95 just south of Jacksonville had to come to a crawl as the road was closed when a car drove underneath a semitrailer.The Florida Highway Patrol says that 41-year-old Robert Barker drove his Honda into a semi and continued driving until the front of his vehicle went under the truck's trailer.This all happened early in the morning Friday, about 2:40 in the southbound lanes. ...

• 9-Year-Old's Family Sues After Autistic Son Injured on School Bus

  Eddie Farah | March 26, 2008 8:30 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It's tough to argue with the picture of the bruises.The parents of a 9-year old boy who is autistic and blind say that attendants on a First Student school bus abused their child and left marks on him. They are suing the bus attendants and First Student Inc. charging negligence and battery."There has been an outrageous sequence of events," said the family's attorney, Eric Block.The incident...

• Freak Accident with Bus Kills City Worker

  Eddie Farah | March 26, 2008 1:16 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The likelihood of this happening is very slim.But one man who worked as a traffic engineer was in a bucket working on a traffic light. The driver of a Jacksonville Transportation Authority bus either didn't see the flag man or ignored him and struck the truck knocking the man 52-year old Cesar Solomon out of the bucket to fall to his death.Police report that the work crew appeared to be doing...

• Florida Man Arrested For Hitting Police Cruiser in Georgia

  Eddie Farah | March 25, 2008 9:47 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Florida man is under arrest after ending a police pursuit by crashing his vehicle into a Georgia State Patrol deputy's car.Sunday about 1 in the afternoon, Theodore Thomas Wagner approached the security guard at the Bayer Corporation in Kingsland, Georgia. He was reportedly acting erratically. He said he was being chased and he was a short while later when he was on I-95 after attracting...

• Legislature Looking At Safer Streets

  Eddie Farah | March 22, 2008 1:49 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  More legislative action is proposed out of Tallahassee this session that might help keeps roads safer.One of the more innovative involves placing red-light cameras that would take a driver's image when they are caught running a red light. A violation could result in a fine. A seat belt violation proposal is back. It would allow law enforcement to pull over someone for not wearing their seat...

• Legislature Trying To Curtail Teen Auto Accidents

  Eddie Farah | March 21, 2008 11:33 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Tallahassee lawmakers are trying to make driving safer for all of us by cracking down on left lane hogs. You've seen them going slow in the left passing lane while talking on their cell phone oblivious to lights. Often they aren't even wearing their seat belt. Proposed Senate Bill 1266 and House Bill 357 would make it illegal to talk on the phone while driving in Florida. That's already the...

• First Coast Teens Learn Lessons of Drinking & Driving

  Eddie Farah | March 20, 2008 10:54 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The attendance was double this year, a sure sign that this teenage education program has hit a nerve. It's called a STUD Rally - Stop Teen Underage Drinking and it looked more like a party at the Morocco Shrine Auditorium Thursday. High schoolers packed the place listening to DJs from 93.3 The Beat, competing for prizes and hearing from First Coast News Sports Director Dan Hicken. Despite the...

• Operation Safe Ride Cracks Down on Spring Break Auto Accidents

  Eddie Farah | March 15, 2008 2:00 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  If you are thinking about speeding anytime this weekend, forget about it.That's because the Florida Highway Patrol will be monitoring you from aircraft, with lasers, radar and marked and unmarked cars on the Interstates, the Florida Turnpike and major and minor roads.From Friday through Sunday, Operation Safe Ride intends to find speeders who tend to come to Florida for spring break and put the...

• SUV Roof Crushes Kill Motorists

  Eddie Farah | March 13, 2008 12:49 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In about 35 percent of auto accidents, death occurs where there is a rollover. In a SUV the death rate jumps to 59 percent.The key to surviving the crash, if you are not ejected, is the strength of the vehicle's roof. Right now the federal government is considering increasing roof strength, something that hasn't been done in passengers cars since 1974. The Insurance Institute for Highway...