Posts tagged auto accident

• Fault Tree Analysis Needed When Truck Crashes Into Interior Of Bank

  Bob Carroll | January 13, 2006 11:14 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A news report on TBO.com tells of another tragic accident caused when a motor vehicle entered the interior of a building. News of similar crashes seem to happen more and more frequently. Each requires a special effort to determine what is called the fault tree.A truck has crashed through the windows of a SunTrust bank branch in New Port Richey, injuring the driver and at least two people...

• Don't Recline That Passenger Seat Too Far

  Bob Carroll | January 13, 2006 5:40 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Do you think it's safe to recline in your passenger seat as long as you have your seat belt on? Think again. From CBS News the story of one reclining passenger:Tami Martin has spent the last six years in a wheelchair after her spine was damaged in a car crash. As CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reports, the problem was not the seat belt - she was wearing one - but how she was sitting,...

• Pickups and SUVs Fail Whiplash Test

  Bob Carroll | January 11, 2006 6:44 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The main purpose of head restraints is supposedly to protect the neck in rear-end collisions. Well, those of us in pickups or SUV's may get a whiplash instead of protection. A CNN report has the details:WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seat and head restraints in most new sport utilities and all pickups evaluated fell short of providing good protection against whiplash in rear-end collisions, an...

• Safer Backing Of Vehicles Could Be Around The Corner

  Bob Carroll | January 10, 2006 6:56 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Soon, we may be able to back our vehicles more safely. "The Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida is conducting research into rear view vision systems on vehicles." Tampa Bay Business JournalThe Safe Accountable, Flexible Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users has authorized $800,000 for the study. One of the systems being evaluated is PowerLinx...

• Snowbank Saves Florida Man From Serious Injury

  Bob Carroll | January 05, 2006 6:52 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  If you are not going to wear a seatbelt you may want to drive only in snowy conditions. A Florida man was ejected from his vehicle in a head-on collision and managed to land in a snow bank. Bryan Wieland, 20, who suffered only minor injuries, was able to walk out of a hospital just hours after the crash. The Hartford Courant has the full story of the snowbank landing and one lucky Floridian.

• Hit And Run Driver Faces Wrongful Death Lawsuit

  Bob Carroll | January 05, 2006 6:15 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Justice inches forward in both civil and criminal court in a case involving the death of a pedestrian on U.S. 19. Two years after fleeing the scene of a deadly crash, a 30-year-old Port Richey man has pleaded guilty and faces 10 years of probation. The man also faces a lawsuit from the estate of the man who died in the crash.Dec. 23, 2003, just after 2 a.m., Shane Darren Sandau was driving a...

• Rear-end Collision Not Always Fault Of Just One Driver

  Bob Carroll | January 03, 2006 5:42 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Floride appellate court opinion has again reminded us that sometimes the lead vehicle in a rear-end collision can bear some, even most, of the legal responsibility. It appears from the opinion that a jury actually determined the lead driver was more at fault than the rear driver. Because of the doctrine of comparative negligence that jury decision would significantly reduce the damages...

• Blog Confession In DUI Death

  Bob Carroll | December 20, 2005 4:52 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Confession may be good for the soul but not necessarily on your blog. A Florida teenager, who admitted in his online journal that he caused an accident which killed his best friend, has pleaded guilty to DUI-manslaughter. Blake Ranking was a passenger in the back seat of a car that crashed Oct. 3, 2004, fatally injuring Jason Coker, 17, and seriously injuring Nicole Robinette. Why was he...

• Hot Pursuit Deaths Become Hot Issue

  Bob Carroll | December 20, 2005 3:42 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A few years ago I represented the survivors of a father and his married daughter who were killed when a police hot pursuit ended tragically with a violent head-on collision. It was clear in that case that the police had violated the internal Police Department policies against hot pursuits of non-violent subjects. Now, two more needless deaths have occurred in the Orlando area as a result of...

• Falling Debris Causes Death On Florida Highway

  Bob Carroll | December 18, 2005 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A tragic death occurred in South Florida this week. Jon M. Herskowitz, Esq., Miami Personal Injury Lawyer, reports on the facts. "Jennifer Green, 49, was killed Wednesday when debris fell from an overturned tractor trailer and landed on her car. The truck had overturned on the overpass ramp and dumped some of its load (constuction debris and tree roots) on the highway below, smashing into...