Posts tagged auto accidents

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• $31 Million Verdict For Brain Injured Victim Of Deputy's Bad Driving

  Bob Carroll | December 02, 2005 5:37 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Seven years ago a Broward County Sheriff's Deputy crashed his cruiser into the car of 18 year old Eric Brody. This week a jury determined that the deputy was speeding and that his negligence was the sole cause of the accident. Eric was severely brain injured and is still struggling to rehabilitate himself and set the damages at $31 Million. Florida imposes a limit or cap upon the liability...

• Seatbelts On School Buses - A Public Debate Needed

  Bob Carroll | November 30, 2005 4:23 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Should there be seatbelts on school buses? A Texas jury has answered with a resounding yes. From Waco, Texas, comes word of a verdict in what may be the first trial in the United States involving the lack of seat belts on a bus. The jury returned a $17.5 million verdict on Nov. 4. Plaintiffs alleged that the bus was defective in part because it did not include seat restraints. (David...

• The Drive-In Grocery Store And Other Absurdities

  Bob Carroll | November 16, 2005 6:04 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  When a shopper is able to drive her car into a grocery store and sever a man's leg, there is something wrong with the construction of the building and the protection of patrons from wayward vehicles. When the pick-up parking for a take-out window of a restaurant is located less than five feet in front of the benches for diners awaiting tables, the table is set for a disaster. Cars belong on...

• Motorcyclist dies in I-Drive crash

  super super | November 03, 2005 3:43 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  ORANGE COUNTY -- A Kissimmee man on a motorcycle died Wednesday afternoon on International Drive in what witnesses told investigators was possibly a street-racing accident.Gabrail Montanez, 28, was riding a 2005 Kawasaki motorcycle south on International Drive south of Central Florida Parkway about 4:45 p.m. Beside him, Christopher Jones, 27, of Orlando was riding a 2005 Yamaha.Montanez tried to...

• Cell Phones, Automobile Accidents & The Country Road

  Bob Carroll | October 16, 2005 7:12 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Rural drivers using cell phones while driving are nearly four times more likely to cause automobile accidents than rural drivers not using cell phones, according to a new study from Montana State University. What could the increased accident rate of cell phone users be in Tampa Bay?When cell phone users are causing 4 times the accidents than non-cell phone using rural drivers in Montana, what...

• Poetic Justice For Uninsured Motorists In Oregon

  Bob Carroll | October 16, 2005 6:09 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Oregon is dispensing poetic justice to prod more motorists to purchase required insurance coverage. A 1999 law denies "pain and suffering" damages to motorists who do not have automobile insurance. Florida should take a closer look at the Oregon statute to see if it can improve the uninsured motorist situation on its highways. Way to go, Oregon! Blogger M Valentine posts an article that...